thetrumpet--2020-03-11--Australia in Pandemic Panic

Australia in Pandemic Panic

jerusalem If your life hasn ’ t changed yet as a result of the rapidly spreading coronavirus , it probably will soon .
As I write , there are only about 35 active cases here in Israel .
That small number , however , has led to the precautionary quarantining of about 80,000 Israelis—a stunning number indicative of Israel ’ s stringent measures to slow down the spread .
And “ slow down ” is all that Israel is attempting to do .
The authorities know that it ’ s impossible to stop .
I ’ m yet to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ close .
Each day I visit the Israel Ministry of Health website to see if I ’ ve unknowingly crossed paths with someone who has the virus .
It turns out when I walked instead of taking the bus last week , I may have averted a potential interaction with a carrier .
Then I avoided another one when my family shopped at our local grocer on a Thursday instead of a Wednesday .
Then again when my wife and I walked past one of our favorite cafés instead of dropping in for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I ’ m outside the danger age associated with the contagion , so I ’ m not overly worried about contracting the virus .
However , having to retrace my steps to see if I ’ ve been exposed , attempting to get money back for a canceled flight , giving a suspicious side look when someone sneezes on the bus , and even wondering at the store if I should put a few extra cans of baked beans in the trolley are all new experiences for me .
Indeed , they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compared to those who have the disease or have died from it .
Nevertheless , these changes are worth considering because I can ’ t recall a time when something so completely outside my control has impacted my family ’ s routine , plans , thought processes and , potentially , well-being .
And perhaps , given the widespread reach of the virus , it has impacted your life as well .
It is worth considering further that if my life has been so impacted by 35 people out of a country of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contagious virus , what would happen if coronavirus were more dangerous , more contagious or more potent ?
What if catching such a disease was actually a risk to my life ?
How would my daily routine be impacted ?
More importantly , how could I protect my family ?
How could you protect yours ?
Some are hopeful that the coronavirus pandemic will produce a global unified response to tackle the disease—that the joint distress will encourage nations to pull together in the spirit of “ the brotherhood of mankind.
” If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it will be purely motivated out of the desire to look after our own rather than caring for others .
If you are on social media , no doubt you ’ ve witnessed images of desperation as people in grocery stores with full shopping carts wrestle each other for the last pack of toilet paper—that ’ s right , toilet paper .
We may laugh at such a scene or shake our heads , but if push comes to shove , our own human natures would likely act in the same way .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
For those hoping nations will come together to cope with the world crises , consider what happened today .
In mere seconds , the oil price dropped by almost 30 percent—its largest drop since the first Gulf War in 1991 .
This was not the result of an Iranian attack on oil infrastructure or the outbreak of another Middle East war .
It was entirely self-induced ; simply the international version of two ladies fighting over toilet paper at the grocery store .
Global demand for oil has fallen , due largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tried to mitigate the losses , Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies were negotiating with Russia to ensure that everyone cut their output , which would have preserved the price for everyone .
But Russia disagreed .
Yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin said , “ I want to stress that for the Russian budget , for our economy , the current oil prices level is acceptable.
” Saudi Arabia didn ’ t like that response and increased its own output by as much as 2 million barrels per day .
On top of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ price to China and other Asian nations .
It put more oil out there and made it even cheaper !
“ The Saudi move was no shot across the bows aimed at Russia ’ s reluctance to extend and boost a deal to curb production , ” wrote Clyde Russell for Reuters .
“ Instead , it was a full-on declaration of war.
” Russell compared the Saudi Arabian move to detonating “ a metaphorical nuclear weapon in the global oil market.
” Saudi Arabia is hurting its own economy by selling oil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drive down prices for oil elsewhere .
In effect , if Putin doesn ’ t want to lower Russia ’ s oil price , Saudi Arabia will lower it for him .
And take the global oil market down with it .
Such is an example of the international response to coronavirus : “ A declaration of war !
” So much for the “ brotherhood of man.
” Clearly , witnessing such scenes play out in the international arena , or even in our local grocery stores , doesn ’ t provide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus .
It also doesn ’ t bode well for the future global problems on the horizon .
Given how our lives are being impacted by something like coronavirus , what will happen when more severe trials come upon us ?
The Bible speaks of a time just ahead of us when violent contagions , often referred to as pestilence , will spread over the globe , somewhat akin to what we see with coronavirus .
In fact , Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote recently that God is actually preparing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right now .
( Please take time to read his cover story from the latest Trumpet magazine : “ Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues in Prophecy.
” ) To many , it might seem odd for a loving God to send such plagues upon His own creation .
But God is always trying to get our attention in order to lead us toward His way of happiness .
Even in such plagues there is hope .
Mr .
Flurry wrote : Bible prophecy tells us that such plagues will definitely get more severe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has allowed this relatively weak pandemic to go across the globe because it is just the degree of correction that someone needs to turn to Him .
Could that someone be you ?
If you haven ’ t already , please read “ Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues in Prophecy .
”

As the coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, we are all getting a front-row seat to an unusual spectacle: panic—sheer panic.
The worry has manifest itself here in Australia in the form of hoarding. And hoarding one thing in particular—toilet paper. The essential three-ply is being stripped off shelves by panicked buyers who fear being left without as the coronavirus crisis intensifies.
The shelves of Woolworths, Coles and other grocery stores are empty, with buyers greedily filling their trollies as soon as new stock arrives. Some stores are implementing four-pack limits in an attempt to make the stock last.
A crowd of shoppers has been captured stampeding through a Melbourne Aldi store in a “disgusting” display of toilet paper panic. https://t.co/sOc3S4UAe3 #7NEWS pic.twitter.com/KsjrwriPs6 — 7NEWS Australia (@7NewsAustralia) March 10, 2020
Then there are the opportunists. Journalists bailed up one man trying to sell a box of toilet paper for $2,000 outside one store. Others have taken to setting up roadside stalls, selling the toilet paper by the roll. Others are selling the hot commodity on Gumtree, eBay and other sites.
All this despite the Australian government calling for rational heads to prevail. Australia manufactures its own toilet paper stock. It won’t be affected by import restrictions. Production at many factories is already up 30 percent to meet the new demand.
But it is not enough to stop the panicked response. Other stock is running out as well. I’m currently blowing my nose with the most luxurious tissues I’ve ever seen, simply because my wife was unable to find anything cheaper.
While there may be a humorous element to this scenario, there is also a dark side. If this is how people react to a small-scale crisis, how will they react to something worse? This isn’t to say coronavirus isn’t an issue. It is—a big one. However, God promises that in the end time tens of millions of people will be killed by pestilence! By comparison, the coronavirus is most definitely small-scale.
Notice that even the panic we are starting to see is prophesied for the end time.
“But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it” (Leviticus 26:14-16)
Note the wording: God appoints terror, which Strong’s Concordance defines as “dismay, sudden terror or ruin, alarm.” And note what comes directly after that. God promises multiple diseases: consumption and the burning ague and a consuming of the eyes.
All this because the people have strayed from God and refuse to keep His law. God will send these things to wake up mankind. And prophecy shows it will take much more than coronavirus to get people to turn to Him. The current selfish and self-centered response to diseases proves it!
The book of Revelation describes the infamous four horsemen of the apocalypse. “I looked, and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him …” (Revelation 6:8; International Standard Version). This symbolizes catastrophic disease epidemics. The passage says that these four horsemen will claim “the fourth part of the earth.” With a population of 7.8 billion people on Earth right now, that means nearly 2 billion people.
This will be measured destruction—meted out by a loving God. It will not be indiscriminate. God is punishing in love.
Consider the current toilet paper fiasco. If people are reacting with hoarding today, what will be the response when the crises intensify to the level mentioned above? Will stockpiles of toilet paper help to save man from God’s righteous rebuke?
Hoarding is not the answer! Repentance and humility is.
God foretold that people would panic. He prophesied that He would appoint terror over them. But even then, God promises a way of escape to those who heed His warning before the Great Tribulation, the worst suffering mankind has ever experienced. Yet even those dark days will be brief. Mankind will be brought to repentance through this terrible time.
But what about today? Is our solution to the current crisis to stockpile on the essentials and hope for the best? Or will we respond the way God yearns for us to? To turn back to Him in real repentance and humility. God promises incredible blessings, including protection from the coming calamity, if we respond today.
The lead article in the April 2020 Trumpet magazine will tell you more about coronavirus and its role in Bible prophecy. In it, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry highlighted the fact that it pains God to know that the suffering is about to get much worse. But it will ultimately reap great fruits. Mr. Flurry wrote, “The world, with its horrific diseases and countless other troubles, will soon be replaced. At His Second Coming, Jesus Christ will accomplish what the most brilliant doctors, scientists and other experts have utterly failed to do: He will bring lasting peace and perfect health to all men, women and children.”


thetrumpet--2020-03-11--Biden’s Resurgence, Obama’s Quiet Hand and the Impact of Coronavirus on Europe

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on stage at a campaign rally at Renaissance High School on March @ @ @ @ @ , Michigan .
Just a few weeks ago , Joe Biden ’ s campaign was @ @ @ @ @ , Barack Obama made a few phone calls .
Now Biden is back in the @ @ @ @ @ the intervention as “ the quiet hand of Obama.
” Some reports indicate that Biden @ @ @ @ @ and it ’ s stocked with former Obama officials .
It ’ s an administration @ @ @ @ @ .
Only the Trumpet analyzes coronavirus within the framework of Bible prophecy .
In this @ @ @ @ @ look at how the virus could reshape geopolitics , and especially how it could impact @ @ @ @ @ formation of the prophesied king of the north .
In this segment we continue our @ @ @ @ @ travel .
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thetrumpet--2020-03-11--The Dangerous Left-Wing Media

The Dangerous Left-Wing Media

History reveals just how gravely wrong the press can be .
A free and fair press is critical to our freedom .
When this is compromised , nation-destroying dangers result .
The media in America and Britain have become political tools .
They no longer take a dispassionate , objective view of events .
Far too many in the media have embraced a far-left political view , to the point that they can not even recognize how grossly partisan they have become .
Media empires are extremely powerful .
The left-wing media are in a power struggle to get control—and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they have grown too powerful for politicians to challenge .
To directly challenge the mega-media often leads to political death .
The one exception has been United States President Donald Trump .
He has single-handedly challenged the press and exposed a great deal of its bias .
Yet this has only caused the press to double down on its opposition to him and its advocacy for leftist politics .
Many in the media have forgotten their obligation to tell the truth !
They have forgotten how noble it is to always seek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truth can set us free ( John 8:32 ) .
A similar problem seized Britain in the decade leading up to World War ii .
This is history with extraordinary relevance for today .
The media and leaders of Britain and America should have learned some critical lessons , but most did not .
There has been no repentance for their shameful failure .
As a result , they are repeating the same mistakes .
We can not even calculate how much damage this is doing to our nations .
The consequences this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Adolf Hitler had publicized his toxic views years before he came to power in Germany , but almost nobody believed him .
The free media were dangerously manipulated by Hitler .
They have probably never been more deceived—until today !
In 1933 , during disarmament talks in Geneva , U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a ban on all offensive weapons .
Hitler loathed the idea , but he pretended to love it .
He promised to scrap all of Germany ’ s offensive weapons along with other nations—even its entire military establishment !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ fraud , of course , but it was the work of a master swindler , and it took almost everyone in , ” William Manchester wrote in The Last Lion : Alone .
“ London ’ s Daily Herald , the official organ of the Labour Party , declared that Hitler , as a trustworthy statesman , should be taken at his word .
The conservative weekly Spectator called him the hope of a tormented world ; to the Times his claim was ‘ irrefutable ’ ” ( emphasis mine throughout ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ madman !
Meanwhile , many signs showed that events in Germany were swiftly moving in a dangerous direction : The ruling party was organizing massive public book burnings .
Trade unions were banned and union leaders were imprisoned .
All non-Nazi political parties were wiped out .
Jews were being mistreated and abused , and concentration camps were filling up .
But these realities were of no interest to Britain ’ s ruling class and its press .
It ’ s hard to fathom how pathetic the Times had become in kowtowing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ editor wrote , “ I should like to get going with the Germans .
I simply can not understand why they should apparently be so much annoyed with the Times at this moment .
I spend my nights in taking out anything which I think will hurt their susceptibilities and in dropping little things which are intended to soothe them.
” Such reasoning reflects a profound sickness !
This is the ultimate in a defeatist attitude , and it leads to the death of nations !
Examples abound of the intellectuals ’ disgraceful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Once Hitler had been sworn in and his Strassenkämpfer began unsheathing their long knives , the British government took the remarkable position that the detailed reports from two of its most eminent ambassadors , describing conditions in the Third Reich , were based on misunderstandings , distortions and unconfirmed rumors , ” Manchester wrote .
“ According to one Wilhelmstrasse document which came into British hands when Berlin fell in May 1945 , [ British Prime Minister Ramsay ] MacDonald assured Germany ’ s ambassador to Britain , Leopold von Hösch , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no beatings , no desecration of synagogues—that everything England ’ s own envoys had reported , was , in short , a lie.
” They believed the Nazis rather than their own envoys !
That defies logic !
“ According to the Times , Baldwin told Hösch that England was ‘ entirely willing to work closely … with a Germany under the new order ’ —die Neuordnung .
It is startling to read this Nazi phrase , so freighted with evil , quoted by a once and future prime minister in the columns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not grasped its implications .
But he should have .
And he should have spoken out .
His silence , his refusal to see , hear and speak … evil of the Nazi chancellor was characteristic of the response among England ’ s ruling classes [ led by the media ] .
If they offended him , they told one another , he would become hostile , and his hostility would blind him to reason ” ( ibid ) .
How repugnant and shameful !
These leaders were terrified of offending Hitler and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was unstable and vicious , yet somehow thought everything would work out if they could just not offend him .
This is how quintessentially compliant and passive Britain ( and America ) had become in the 1930s !
And the media led the way .
This history is painful and embarrassing .
But what did these leaders and the media learn from it ?
All the while , Winston Churchill was delivering a very different message .
He was doing everything possible to warn and save his country and the world from Adolf @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he gave a speech saying that while he believed in Britain ’ s institutions , difficulties always came from “ the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals ” —many of whom were in the media , as they are today .
He criticized their “ defeatist doctrines.
” “ What have they to offer but a vague internationalism , a squalid materialism , and the promise of impossible Utopias ?
” he asked .
“ Nothing can save England if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we lose faith in ourselves , in our capacity to guide and govern , if we lose our will to live , then indeed our story is told.
” This is the same problem so many of our journalists and people have today !
Intellectuals wallow in self-abasement .
They are hostile toward America and Britain exercising real leadership and strength .
They lack the will to fight even our worst enemies !
Several nations today pose serious political , economic and military threats .
Yet the intellectuals pretend the world is better @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and that the best way to ensure peace is through disarmament , negotiation and compromise .
They pretend the world is full of reasonable peoples , and that peace is possible by international consensus .
This is perilously delusional !
“ The British left , led by Clement Attlee and pledged to pacifism and disarmament , deeply distrusted [ Churchill ] , ” Manchester wrote .
“ Thus he outraged M.P.s on both sides of the Commons .
… Afterward he said there had been ‘ much mocking in the press ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political cartoonists in Punch , the Daily Herald , the Express and above all David Low in Beaverbrook ’ s Evening Standard were brutal .
Public appearances became an ordeal for him .
Chosen rector of Edinburgh University , he was unable to deliver his rectorial address ; students hostile to his calls for a strengthened national defense repeatedly shouted him down until he gave up and left the platform ” ( op cit ) .
These students had never learned about freedom of speech , and Hitler almost took it away from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in such institutions .
The pacifists were dead wrong .
And if not for Churchill , most of them would have ended up just plain dead in the war !
Are our pacifists today leading us to a similar fate ?
Hitler was skilled at taking advantage of the naiveté of British leaders .
“ Hitler , deciding that Europe needed more reassurance , summoned the Reichstag on May 21 [ 1935 ] and delivered another Friedensrede , declaring that Germany would never dream of threatening other countries , that the Reich ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frontiers , ’ including the renunciation of ‘ all claims to Alsace-Lorraine , ’ and—at a time when Nazi Strassenkämpfer were storming through the streets of Vienna , clubbing Austrian pedestrians who had failed to greet them with the stiff-armed Hitlergruss—that ‘ Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria , to annex Austria , or to conclude an Anschluss.
’ ” This directly contradicted Hitler ’ s clear statement in Mein Kampf that he would force Austria into the Reich .
But the media believed his lies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s speech “ reasonable , straightforward and comprehensive.
” “ No one who reads it with an impartial mind can doubt that the points of policy laid down by Herr Hitler may fairly constitute the basis of a complete settlement with Germany—a free , equal and strong Germany instead of the prostrate Germany upon whom peace was imposed 16 years ago , ” it wrote .
It was doing public relations for Hitler as well as Hitler ’ s own propaganda minister .
Soon after , Germany took over Austria , plainly exposing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deceit .
Churchill gave a powerful message about the Austrian crisis .
He warned the House on March 24 , 1938 , against becoming complacent because of a brief easing of tensions .
Every time Germany made a move , it waited a while before making another .
“ After a boa constrictor has devoured its prey , it often has a considerable digestive spell , ” he said .
“ Now , after Austria has been struck down , we are all disturbed and alarmed , but in a little while there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] f there is a pause , then people will be saying , ‘ See how the alarmists have been confuted ; Europe has calmed down , it has all blown over , and the war scare has passed away.
’ … The Times will write a leading article to say how silly people look who on the morrow of the Austrian incorporation raised a clamor for exceptional action in foreign policy and home defense , and how wise the government were not to let themselves be carried away by this passing incident.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he argued .
He finished by warning , “ For five years I have talked to the House on these matters—not with very great success .
I have watched this famous island descending incontinently , fecklessly , the stairway which leads to a dark gulf .
It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning , but after a bit the carpet ends .
A little farther on there are only flagstones , and a little farther on still these break beneath your feet .
[ I ] f mortal catastrophe should overtake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs .
They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation , with everything in hand , suffered themselves to be brought low , and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory gone with the wind !
Now the victors are the vanquished , and those who threw down their arms in the field and sued for an armistice are striding on to world mastery.
” How did people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very day , the Evening Standard decided to stop printing Churchill ’ s articles .
His syndicated column would no longer appear in over 50 newspapers around the world !
Churchill was denied his media platform to warn the world .
Within days , the syndication manager wrote Churchill : “ I have received expressions of regret from all the papers in England from which we have had to withdraw the series .
All the editors are agreed that the articles were unusually highly appreciated by their readers.
” It would be hard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the media , and of academia , which produced these leaders !
The people were much wiser , less biased and far less arrogant than the media !
It wasn ’ t long before Hitler began agitating for Sudetenland , part of Czechoslovakia , which was in an alliance with Britain .
Astoundingly , the press , especially the Times , argued that the Czechs should give in to Hitler .
They said the main threat to peace was the obstinancy of the Czechs !
But the only reason the Czechs were obstinate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give Germany a large portion of their country !
What these leaders and the media did in dealing with Hitler before World War ii was despicable !
Events make this inescapably clear .
Almost all the media refused to see him for what he really was—until it was almost too late !
Britain nearly lost World War ii .
The world came dangerously close to being slaughtered and enslaved by Nazi Germany .
Finally Hitler forced them to see how evil he really was !
They didn ’ t see until they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forget that !
As Churchill worked furiously to save Western civilization , most of the media worked equally hard to destroy it !
They inflicted horrendous evil on Churchill because he was trying to save the world from tyranny !
This was a severely criminal act that should never be forgotten !
And it should have caused the media to bitterly repent .
There should have been sweeping changes after World War ii , turning from such dangerous thinking .
Yet no such repentance ever took place .
The media simply moved on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And don ’ t expect them to voluntarily repent today .
The left-wing media today are making even bigger mistakes , and so are our politicians , educational institutions and religious leaders .
What does this portend for the survival of Britain , America and the Western world ?
The media today are much further left than in the 1930s .
Their reporting is even more biased and dangerous .
They have an even more entrenched hatred for American and British power , deeper commitment to pacifism and failed internationalism , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evil .
They attack the Trump administration for punishing Iran , the world ’ s number one state sponsor of terror .
When the president ordered a strike on top general Qassem Suleimani , who had killed hundreds of Americans , they called that a dangerous provocation and depicted that murderer like a beloved saint !
They are angry with President Trump for standing up to China on economic and trade policy .
They are enraged by his forcing Mexico and Latin American countries to stop encouraging immigrants to illegally flood into the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protect and defend American interests , they condemn .
The left-wing media are almost always against using our military might to stop the Hitler-types and to do good in the world .
That means they provide very little context in their reporting .
They give their biased opinion and often fail to tell the whole story .
They fight against the truth and blind many of our people to reality .
This means our leaders almost always lack the support to fight the real enemy , even if they have the will .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ own warped human reasoning .
They are a danger even to themselves , and a grave danger to the many people who trust them .
They are destroying the military spirit that defends our people !
They are destroying the security of America , Britain and Israel .
Our military power is of little value if we lack the will to use it .
We have degenerated into unparalleled selfishness and fear .
Why should our most courageous young men and women risk their lives while most of the media condemn what they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are fulfilling a prophecy where God says He will “ break the pride of your power ” —or will to use that power—because of our sins ( Leviticus 26:19 ) .
This is the real problem we must confront , regardless of our political philosophy !
In the age of nuclear , biological and chemical weapons , such weakness leads to the death of nations !
The media ’ s goal is to change the people to their way of thinking .
And they are having frightening success .
They arrogantly believe they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ think .
Their goal is not to get the facts to our people , which journalists should be doing .
They want to rule—not inform .
They are tyrants and terrorists of the intellect !
It ’ s the 1930s all over again .
As Churchill said , we never learn from history .
That means history is going to repeat itself !
And the next time , there will be no political leader to save us !
The left-wing media scorn history .
That is why they never seem to learn lessons @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to World War ii .
If the “ appeaseniks ” had won in their battle with Winston Churchill—and they almost did—there would be no media freedom in the Western world !
The left-wing media learned nothing from that mega-disaster .
Media leaders still can not see and will not repent of their glaring faults .
They are simply too arrogant .
Leaders of the powerful media must have abundant humility , or they are a deadly danger to their nation and the world !
So who can we trust ?
The Bible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many curses !
( e.g .
Jeremiah 17:5 ) .
In many ways , the threats in the world today are even more menacing than Hitler was .
Think about what rogue states and terrorists can do with weapons of mass destruction .
This issue gets to the heart of the survival of our peoples .
That is how important it is .
Some people are going to scorn this analysis , but not for long .
Words will not bring people out of this darkness .
It will take a jolt like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only reason Winston Churchill came to power .
And if we don ’ t wake up , we are going to be hammered by a far worse World War iii of nuclear bombs to wake us up !
Falsehood enslaves us—it takes us into a black world of deceit .
It is less violent than what terrorists fight for—but it is still slavery !
It is a slavery of the intellect .
We become enslaved to error , evil and fantasy and call it truth and freedom .
This issue gets to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ love truth and freedom .
Anything less than the truth is just another form of slavery and terrorism .
The self-willed , arrogant , left-wing media are trying to enslave us , just as the world ’ s worst terrorists are !
It is just another form of terrorism .
Whether it comes from the right or left , it is still repugnant .
The more we see such hatred of the truth , the more we ought to see how precious truth is .
Whether we realize it or not , God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But no such political watchman will be used to save us today .
Many Bible prophecies warn that only repentance of our many sins can save us now .
God will give His blessings and protection to any individual who will learn this lesson .

History reveals just how gravely wrong the press can be.
A free and fair press is critical to our freedom. When this is compromised, nation-destroying dangers result.
The media in America and Britain have become political tools. They no longer take a dispassionate, objective view of events. Far too many in the media have embraced a far-left political view, to the point that they cannot even recognize how grossly partisan they have become.
Media empires are extremely powerful. The left-wing media are in a power struggle to get control—and they have been winning. Though unelected, they have grown too powerful for politicians to challenge. To directly challenge the mega-media often leads to political death.
The one exception has been United States President Donald Trump. He has single-handedly challenged the press and exposed a great deal of its bias. Yet this has only caused the press to double down on its opposition to him and its advocacy for leftist politics.
Many in the media have forgotten their obligation to tell the truth! They have forgotten how noble it is to always seek and tell the truth. Only the truth can set us free (John 8:32).
A similar problem seized Britain in the decade leading up to World War ii. This is history with extraordinary relevance for today. The media and leaders of Britain and America should have learned some critical lessons, but most did not. There has been no repentance for their shameful failure. As a result, they are repeating the same mistakes. We cannot even calculate how much damage this is doing to our nations. The consequences this time will be far more severe.
Swindled by Hitler
Adolf Hitler had publicized his toxic views years before he came to power in Germany, but almost nobody believed him. The free media were dangerously manipulated by Hitler. They have probably never been more deceived—until today!
In 1933, during disarmament talks in Geneva, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed a ban on all offensive weapons. Hitler loathed the idea, but he pretended to love it. He promised to scrap all of Germany’s offensive weapons along with other nations—even its entire military establishment! “His reply to Roosevelt was a fraud, of course, but it was the work of a master swindler, and it took almost everyone in,” William Manchester wrote in The Last Lion: Alone. “London’s Daily Herald, the official organ of the Labour Party, declared that Hitler, as a trustworthy statesman, should be taken at his word. The conservative weekly Spectator called him the hope of a tormented world; to the Times his claim was ‘irrefutable’” (emphasis mine throughout).
These newspapers were utterly duped by this madman!
Meanwhile, many signs showed that events in Germany were swiftly moving in a dangerous direction: The ruling party was organizing massive public book burnings. Trade unions were banned and union leaders were imprisoned. All non-Nazi political parties were wiped out. Jews were being mistreated and abused, and concentration camps were filling up. But these realities were of no interest to Britain’s ruling class and its press.
It’s hard to fathom how pathetic the Times had become in kowtowing to Hitler. In 1937, the Times editor wrote, “I should like to get going with the Germans. I simply cannot understand why they should apparently be so much annoyed with the Times at this moment. I spend my nights in taking out anything which I think will hurt their susceptibilities and in dropping little things which are intended to soothe them.” Such reasoning reflects a profound sickness! This is the ultimate in a defeatist attitude, and it leads to the death of nations!
Examples abound of the intellectuals’ disgraceful credulity—despite so much contrary evidence. “Once Hitler had been sworn in and his Strassenkämpfer began unsheathing their long knives, the British government took the remarkable position that the detailed reports from two of its most eminent ambassadors, describing conditions in the Third Reich, were based on misunderstandings, distortions and unconfirmed rumors,” Manchester wrote. “According to one Wilhelmstrasse document which came into British hands when Berlin fell in May 1945, [British Prime Minister Ramsay] MacDonald assured Germany’s ambassador to Britain, Leopold von Hösch, that he knew there were no atrocities, no beatings, no desecration of synagogues—that everything England’s own envoys had reported, was, in short, a lie.” They believed the Nazis rather than their own envoys! That defies logic!
“According to the Times, Baldwin told Hösch that England was ‘entirely willing to work closely … with a Germany under the new order’—die Neuordnung. It is startling to read this Nazi phrase, so freighted with evil, quoted by a once and future prime minister in the columns of the Times. Doubtless Baldwin had not grasped its implications. But he should have. And he should have spoken out. His silence, his refusal to see, hear and speak … evil of the Nazi chancellor was characteristic of the response among England’s ruling classes [led by the media]. If they offended him, they told one another, he would become hostile, and his hostility would blind him to reason” (ibid).
How repugnant and shameful! These leaders were terrified of offending Hitler and setting him off! They knew he was unstable and vicious, yet somehow thought everything would work out if they could just not offend him. This is how quintessentially compliant and passive Britain (and America) had become in the 1930s! And the media led the way.
This history is painful and embarrassing. But what did these leaders and the media learn from it?
Churchill’s Will to Win
All the while, Winston Churchill was delivering a very different message. He was doing everything possible to warn and save his country and the world from Adolf Hitler.
On April 24, 1932, he gave a speech saying that while he believed in Britain’s institutions, difficulties always came from “the mood of unwarrantable self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own intellectuals”—many of whom were in the media, as they are today. He criticized their “defeatist doctrines.” “What have they to offer but a vague internationalism, a squalid materialism, and the promise of impossible Utopias?” he asked. “Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.”
This is the same problem so many of our journalists and people have today! Intellectuals wallow in self-abasement. They are hostile toward America and Britain exercising real leadership and strength. They lack the will to fight even our worst enemies! Several nations today pose serious political, economic and military threats. Yet the intellectuals pretend the world is better off with a weak and apologetic America, and that the best way to ensure peace is through disarmament, negotiation and compromise. They pretend the world is full of reasonable peoples, and that peace is possible by international consensus. This is perilously delusional!
“The British left, led by Clement Attlee and pledged to pacifism and disarmament, deeply distrusted [Churchill],” Manchester wrote. “Thus he outraged M.P.s on both sides of the Commons. … Afterward he said there had been ‘much mocking in the press’ about his fall from grace. The political cartoonists in Punch, the Daily Herald, the Express and above all David Low in Beaverbrook’s Evening Standard were brutal. Public appearances became an ordeal for him. Chosen rector of Edinburgh University, he was unable to deliver his rectorial address; students hostile to his calls for a strengthened national defense repeatedly shouted him down until he gave up and left the platform” (op cit).
These students had never learned about freedom of speech, and Hitler almost took it away from them forever! Most journalists are educated in such institutions.
The pacifists were dead wrong. And if not for Churchill, most of them would have ended up just plain dead in the war!
Are our pacifists today leading us to a similar fate?
Shameful Blindness
Hitler was skilled at taking advantage of the naiveté of British leaders. “Hitler, deciding that Europe needed more reassurance, summoned the Reichstag on May 21 [1935] and delivered another Friedensrede, declaring that Germany would never dream of threatening other countries, that the Reich ‘has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers,’ including the renunciation of ‘all claims to Alsace-Lorraine,’ and—at a time when Nazi Strassenkämpfer were storming through the streets of Vienna, clubbing Austrian pedestrians who had failed to greet them with the stiff-armed Hitlergruss—that ‘Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss.’” This directly contradicted Hitler’s clear statement in Mein Kampf that he would force Austria into the Reich. But the media believed his lies anyway.
The Times called Hitler’s speech “reasonable, straightforward and comprehensive.” “No one who reads it with an impartial mind can doubt that the points of policy laid down by Herr Hitler may fairly constitute the basis of a complete settlement with Germany—a free, equal and strong Germany instead of the prostrate Germany upon whom peace was imposed 16 years ago,” it wrote. It was doing public relations for Hitler as well as Hitler’s own propaganda minister.
Soon after, Germany took over Austria, plainly exposing Hitler’s gracious words as rank deceit.
Churchill gave a powerful message about the Austrian crisis. He warned the House on March 24, 1938, against becoming complacent because of a brief easing of tensions. Every time Germany made a move, it waited a while before making another. “After a boa constrictor has devoured its prey, it often has a considerable digestive spell,” he said. “Now, after Austria has been struck down, we are all disturbed and alarmed, but in a little while there may be another pause. [I]f there is a pause, then people will be saying, ‘See how the alarmists have been confuted; Europe has calmed down, it has all blown over, and the war scare has passed away.’ … The Times will write a leading article to say how silly people look who on the morrow of the Austrian incorporation raised a clamor for exceptional action in foreign policy and home defense, and how wise the government were not to let themselves be carried away by this passing incident.” Such thinking was a trap, he argued.
He finished by warning, “For five years I have talked to the House on these matters—not with very great success. I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf. It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet ends. A little farther on there are only flagstones, and a little farther on still these break beneath your feet. [I]f mortal catastrophe should overtake the British nation and the British Empire, historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs. They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low, and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory gone with the wind! Now the victors are the vanquished, and those who threw down their arms in the field and sued for an armistice are striding on to world mastery.”
How did people respond to this plain truth? That very day, the Evening Standard decided to stop printing Churchill’s articles. His syndicated column would no longer appear in over 50 newspapers around the world! Churchill was denied his media platform to warn the world.
Within days, the syndication manager wrote Churchill: “I have received expressions of regret from all the papers in England from which we have had to withdraw the series. All the editors are agreed that the articles were unusually highly appreciated by their readers.” It would be hard to find a statement more condemning of the media, and of academia, which produced these leaders! The people were much wiser, less biased and far less arrogant than the media!
It wasn’t long before Hitler began agitating for Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, which was in an alliance with Britain. Astoundingly, the press, especially the Times, argued that the Czechs should give in to Hitler. They said the main threat to peace was the obstinancy of the Czechs! But the only reason the Czechs were obstinate was because they didn’t want to give Germany a large portion of their country!
What these leaders and the media did in dealing with Hitler before World War ii was despicable! Events make this inescapably clear. Almost all the media refused to see him for what he really was—until it was almost too late! Britain nearly lost World War ii. The world came dangerously close to being slaughtered and enslaved by Nazi Germany.
Finally Hitler forced them to see how evil he really was! They didn’t see until they were forced to. Don’t forget that!
As Churchill worked furiously to save Western civilization, most of the media worked equally hard to destroy it! They inflicted horrendous evil on Churchill because he was trying to save the world from tyranny! This was a severely criminal act that should never be forgotten! And it should have caused the media to bitterly repent. There should have been sweeping changes after World War ii, turning from such dangerous thinking.
Yet no such repentance ever took place. The media simply moved on as though they bore no guilt whatsoever. And don’t expect them to voluntarily repent today. The left-wing media today are making even bigger mistakes, and so are our politicians, educational institutions and religious leaders.
What does this portend for the survival of Britain, America and the Western world?
Tyrants of the Intellect
The media today are much further left than in the 1930s. Their reporting is even more biased and dangerous. They have an even more entrenched hatred for American and British power, deeper commitment to pacifism and failed internationalism, and still no comprehension of the nature of evil.
They attack the Trump administration for punishing Iran, the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. When the president ordered a strike on top general Qassem Suleimani, who had killed hundreds of Americans, they called that a dangerous provocation and depicted that murderer like a beloved saint! They are angry with President Trump for standing up to China on economic and trade policy. They are enraged by his forcing Mexico and Latin American countries to stop encouraging immigrants to illegally flood into the U.S. Every move the president makes to protect and defend American interests, they condemn.
The left-wing media are almost always against using our military might to stop the Hitler-types and to do good in the world. That means they provide very little context in their reporting. They give their biased opinion and often fail to tell the whole story. They fight against the truth and blind many of our people to reality. This means our leaders almost always lack the support to fight the real enemy, even if they have the will.
The left-wing media are lost in their own warped human reasoning. They are a danger even to themselves, and a grave danger to the many people who trust them. They are destroying the military spirit that defends our people! They are destroying the security of America, Britain and Israel. Our military power is of little value if we lack the will to use it. We have degenerated into unparalleled selfishness and fear.
Why should our most courageous young men and women risk their lives while most of the media condemn what they are doing? In the process we are fulfilling a prophecy where God says He will “break the pride of your power”—or will to use that power—because of our sins (Leviticus 26:19). This is the real problem we must confront, regardless of our political philosophy! In the age of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, such weakness leads to the death of nations!
The media’s goal is to change the people to their way of thinking. And they are having frightening success. They arrogantly believe they are qualified to tell people how to think. Their goal is not to get the facts to our people, which journalists should be doing. They want to rule—not inform. They are tyrants and terrorists of the intellect!
It’s the 1930s all over again. As Churchill said, we never learn from history. That means history is going to repeat itself! And the next time, there will be no political leader to save us!
Greater Threat Today
The left-wing media scorn history. That is why they never seem to learn lessons from history—even recent history like events leading up to World War ii. If the “appeaseniks” had won in their battle with Winston Churchill—and they almost did—there would be no media freedom in the Western world!
The left-wing media learned nothing from that mega-disaster. Media leaders still cannot see and will not repent of their glaring faults. They are simply too arrogant. Leaders of the powerful media must have abundant humility, or they are a deadly danger to their nation and the world!
So who can we trust? The Bible warns that trusting men will bring us many curses! (e.g. Jeremiah 17:5).
In many ways, the threats in the world today are even more menacing than Hitler was. Think about what rogue states and terrorists can do with weapons of mass destruction. This issue gets to the heart of the survival of our peoples. That is how important it is.
Some people are going to scorn this analysis, but not for long.
Words will not bring people out of this darkness. It will take a jolt like World War ii. That is the only reason Winston Churchill came to power. And if we don’t wake up, we are going to be hammered by a far worse World War iii of nuclear bombs to wake us up!
Falsehood enslaves us—it takes us into a black world of deceit. It is less violent than what terrorists fight for—but it is still slavery! It is a slavery of the intellect. We become enslaved to error, evil and fantasy and call it truth and freedom.
This issue gets to the core of whether or not we really love truth and freedom. Anything less than the truth is just another form of slavery and terrorism.
The self-willed, arrogant, left-wing media are trying to enslave us, just as the world’s worst terrorists are! It is just another form of terrorism.
Whether it comes from the right or left, it is still repugnant. The more we see such hatred of the truth, the more we ought to see how precious truth is.
Whether we realize it or not, God used Winston Churchill to save us. But no such political watchman will be used to save us today. Many Bible prophecies warn that only repentance of our many sins can save us now. God will give His blessings and protection to any individual who will learn this lesson.


thetrumpet--2020-03-11--Iran Triples Enriched Uranium Stockpile

Iran Triples Enriched Uranium Stockpile

Compensating for slumps in the automotive markets , defense earnings are soaring .
Rheinmetall , based in Düsseldorf , Germany , witnessed a stark rise in demands in its armaments division but a decrease in its automotive division in 2019 .
However , the group ’ s defense sector compensated for far more than the loss in its automotive sector .
Rheinmetall ’ s significantly higher profitability of armaments gives us an ominous prelude of where our world is heading .
“ Rheinmetall has had another record year , ” Rheinmetall AG ’ s chief executive officer , Armin Papperger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sales reached a new high and generated an operating result of over €500 million ( us $ 561 million ) .
The group ’ s operating free cash flow also increased to over €300 million ( $ 336 million ) , and its order backlog grew for the first time to nearly €11 billion ( $ 12.3 billion ) .
“ We are also well positioned for the future in key markets , ” Papperger continued .
“ In our role as an international system provider for armed forces , we are benefiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business gifted to us by the pressing backlog in military procurement.
” The supercycle that is causing Rheinmetall to rejoice is causing others great concern .
The world is rapidly arming again .
Rheinmetall is benefiting from the massive military upgrades in Germany and other Western nations .
The budget for Germany ’ s Bundeswehr is rising to $ 50.6 billion this year—almost 40 percent more than in 2014 .
In 2020 , the combined military budgets of the European states is expected to exceed $ 300 billion .
“ Among other things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Arab states against Iran , ” German-Foreign-Policy.com noted , “ but above all from the arming of the Western world against Russia and China.
” Germany ’ s economy just barely avoided a recession last year .
The uncertainty over Brexit , the trade war between the United States and China , as well as U.S. tariffs and sanctions against Russia and Iran have left Germany ’ s economy on unstable footing .
Its economy flourished for decades while the world experienced relative peace .
But with rising uncertainties around the globe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might to refocus on Europe ’ s military buildup .
Following the 1923 global economic crisis , the German industry suffered major setbacks—until Adolf Hitler gave new orders to fuel the German war machine .
He turned the civil industry ’ s attention toward producing weapons to facilitate rearmament .
We are now seeing a similar trend .
Today , Germany ’ s industry is not only in position to fuel the nation ’ s own military ambitions but also those of all of Europe .
If you combine the strength of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Germany could soon be mass-producing tanks and other military vehicles instead of cars , ” we explained in “ Forging a Superpower , ” from the April 2019 Trumpet issue .
Rheinmetall today operates in 21 countries and is the 10th-largest weapons manufacturer in Europe .
During World War ii , Rheinmetall was Adolf Hitler ’ s second-largest arms supplier .
How is it that this same manufacturer is arming Germany again today ?
Allied forces met in 1945 in Potsdam , Germany , and resolved that Germany should undergo a “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elimination or control of all German industry that could be used for military production.
” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt said at the time : “ It is our inflexible purpose to destroy German militarism and Nazism ….
” There is a reason why these leaders were concerned that Germany would start yet another war .
“ In 1996 , a shocking World War ii intelligence document was made public , ” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in Germany ’ s Conquest of the Balkans .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1944 meeting between top German industrialists , reveals a secret postwar plan to restore the Nazis to power.
” Rheinmetall was at that meeting .
The participating companies at the time pledged to “ prepare themselves to finance the Nazi Party , which would be forced to go underground.
” Many of these companies entered the civil industry after World War ii and later reentered the arms industry .
“ When the U.S. declassified this document , ” Mr .
Flurry writes , “ it received only sparse news coverage .
Yet even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the press is the fact that the U.S. government did not make it public until 1996—over 50 years later !
” Today , Rheinmetall is rejoicing that its sales in its defense subsidiary are compensating its losses in the automotive sector .
Few realize that the only purpose for its automotive sector was to enable the company to endure times of peace .
In a public address given May 9 , 1945 , during the inaugural session of the United Nations , the late Herbert W. Armstrong warned : We don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ start of World War ii , they have considered the possibility of losing this second round , as they did the first—and they have carefully , methodically planned , in such eventuality , the third round—World War iii !
Hitler has lost .
This round of war , in Europe , is over .
And the Nazis have now gone underground .
In France and Norway they learned how effectively an organized underground can hamper occupation and control of a country .
Paris was liberated by the French underground—and Allied armies .
Now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They plan to come back and to win on the third try .
Mr. Armstrong ’ s forecast was informed by the prophecy in Revelation 17:8 : “ The beast that thou sawest was , and is not ; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit , and go into perdition : and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder , whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world , when they behold the beast that was , and is not , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other Bible prophecies , Mr. Armstrong understood that Germany would eventually dominate Europe and start another world war .
While everyone prophesied Germany ’ s doom in 1945 , Mr. Armstrong prophesied about its unparalleled revival .
Now 75 years later , we are witnessing how absolutely accurate his warning was .
God revealed these prophecies to Mr. Armstrong decades before their fulfillment for a reason .
God , in His mercy , is giving nations and individuals a chance to heed the warning and be spared from the suffering .
Sadly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ God ’ s message .
In Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast ?
Mr. Armstrong gave the explicit details of these prophecies we are seeing come to pass .
Mr. Armstrong explained that these prophecies lead to Jesus Christ ’ s return and the end of all suffering .
But before then , mankind has to learn that his ways lead to destruction ( Proverbs 14:12 ) .
Request a free copy of Who or What Is the Prophetic Beast ?
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Iran has nearly tripled its stockpile of enriched uranium since November, the International Atomic Energy Agency (iaea) announced on March 3. Its total stockpile is now five times over the limit as outlined by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, making it only a matter of time before Iran has enough fuel for an actual nuclear weapon.
Additionally, Iran is refusing to answer questions about three potential undeclared nuclear sites. It is also denying any international observers access to the sites. Therefore, Iran could actually have a larger amount of uranium than is accounted for.
As of February 19, the iaea reported that Iran has a total of 1,021 kilograms of enriched uranium, far more than the 372 kilograms reported in November last year. Furthermore, according to the New York Times, if Iran further enriches its uranium from the current 4.5 percent to 90 percent, which is the necessary threshold to produce one bomb, it could go nuclear.
Although it would take months, or even years, to build a functional warhead, the amount of progress that Iran has made in just a few months is indicative of how quickly it can advance if wholly dedicated to the task. Indeed, with Iran having crossed the 1,000 kilograms of uranium threshold, it would only take a mere three to four months for it to enrich the uranium to 90 percent, reaching weapons-grade level.
Some experts are doubtful that Iran intends to actually build a bomb, citing that its intention is to put pressure on Europe to undermine the economic sanctions imposed by the United States, in a type of nuclear blackmail.
The fact remains, however, Iran’s “breakout time” for a bomb is now standing at just under a year. And the fact that it denied international observers access to three purported nuclear development sites indicates that it is committed to a serious nuclear development program.
Also note that Iran has been able to increase its enriched uranium levels despite the sanctions. It is continuing with its nuclear weapons program, and sanctions definitely aren’t enough of a deterrent to stop Iran.
This is because nothing short of an aggressive, military foreign policy is going to discourage Iran from reaching its nuclear ambitions. This aggressive action will come. But it will not come from the United States. Rather, it will come from Europe, the very power Iran is looking to for redemption from America’s sanctions.
Daniel 11:40 states, “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.” In his free booklet The King of the South, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry identifies Iranian-led radical Islam, as that “king of the south.” The “king of the north,” he states, is a united, German-led Europe. The Prophet Daniel recorded this prophecy to warn the world of a coming clash between these bold powerhouses.
In “Will Sanctions Slow Iran’s Quest for Domination?” we wrote:
The European “king of the north” will perhaps realize by the point of the Daniel 11:40 clash that mitigating the impact of sanctions on Iran doesn’t help change the behavior of Iranian leaders. It will perhaps realize by that point that the economic pressure of sanctions also doesn’t do much to change the behavior of Iranian leaders—not because sanctions are themselves inherently futile but because sanctions against radical Islamists who cherish “resistance” and martyrdom are ultimately futile.
The sanctions Iran is under are only a temporary setback. They are not going to slow down its nuclear ambitions forever, as evidenced by its present uranium enrichment. Watch for the ultimate reaction to come from Europe as Iran continues to “push” more and more. What is perceived as European benevolence is prophesied to ultimately become a destructive, “whirlwind” military exercise.
To fully understand these prophecies, request a copy of The King of the South, by Gerald Flurry.


thetrumpet--2020-03-10--Russia was Targeting America When they Triggered the Oil War

The Kremlin is willing to hurt the Russian economy to gain a geopolitical advantage over America .
Saudi Arabia has launched what could end up being one of the worst oil price wars in modern history , and American oil and gas companies could be caught in the cross fire .
With fears about a coronavirus epidemic effecting demand for oil around the world , the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( opec ) met in Vienna , Austria , on March 6 to propose that total oil output be reduced by 1.5 million barrels a day to prevent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Yet Russia refused to cooperate with opec and cut its oil production .
This refusal prompted Saudi Arabia to announce that it would not be cutting oil production either .
Instead it would increase its oil production by 2 million barrels per day .
In an already oversupplied global market , Saudi Arabia ’ s announcement caused Brent crude oil prices to plunge 31 percent to a low of $ 31.25 a barrel , its steepest single-day drop since the 1991 Persian Gulf War .
It only costs $ 9.90 for Saudi Arabia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of an existing oil field , while it takes Russia $ 17.20 to do the same thing .
So the Saudi government figures it can survive low oil prices much longer than Russia can .
But the heart of this dispute revolves around America ’ s oil and gas companies .
On February 18 , the Trump administration announced economic sanctions targeting Russia ’ s largest oil company .
The reason for these sanctions is that Russia is helping Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro bypass United States sanctions by transporting his oil for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been retaliating against the Trump administration by refusing to cut oil production .
Since most U.S. oil wells have a break-even point of $ 36.20 a barrel over their production life , American oil and gas companies ( which rely heavily on expensive hydraulic fracturing techniques ) can not turn a profit when oil prices are this low .
The U.S. has also passed sanctions against companies involved in constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany , saying it is a “ tool of coercion ” to make @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gas .
“ The Kremlin has decided to sacrifice opec+ to stop U.S. shale producers and punish the U.S. for messing with Nord Stream 2 , ” the president of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow told Bloomberg News .
Saudi Arabia ’ s response probably pushed prices far lower than Russia expected .
These low oil prices may hurt Russia ’ s economy more than they hurt the U.S. economy , and could actually boost the U.S. economy overall .
But in the short term , they will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Russia ’ s geopolitical calculus , anything it can do to prevent America from becoming a net energy exporter strengthens the Kremlin ’ s influence over nations like Venezuela and Germany .
So for the time being , Russia seems willing to suffer through low oil prices to prevent America from developing its oil fields to the point where it can start offering nations an alternative to Russian energy .
The most important player in the complicated world of energy politics is Germany .
The U.S. is sanctioning Russia ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reduce Russian influence in Latin America and Eastern Europe .
Yet Germany wants to develop closer energy deals with Russia as a means of reducing its reliance on the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization .
“ When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( nato ) was started back in 1949 , its basic purpose was to protect disarmed Germany and other European countries from the Russian-led Soviet Union , ” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in the September 2018 Trumpet issue .
“ Nord Stream 2 binds Russia and Germany together @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In fact , though Russia and Germany will not say so , this pipeline project is clearly intended to wreck nato .
… Many elite Germans feel their nation has now gotten all it can from the U.S. and they are ready to move on.
” Unlike the Russian economy , the U.S. economy is not particularly dependent on oil .
So as long as Germany supports America , the worst that is likely to happen from Russia ’ s oil price war is that U.S. energy companies may have to shut down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ until oil prices rebound .
But if Germany ’ s desire for cheap Russian gas brings about a German-Russian alliance against the United States , things could get bad quickly .
International relations expert George Friedman gave a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in February 2015 .
He explained that the U.S. government actively works to prevent a German-Russian alliance because the combination of German technology with Russian natural resources could create a Eurasian power bloc with the capability to challenge America ’ s position as the world ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parent magazine , the Plain Truth , have proclaimed for 80 years that Germany will lead a final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire .
And the Bible reveals that Russia will play a key role in Germany ’ s rise to power .
A prophecy in Ezekiel 27 describes a trading power called Tyre that exchanges merchandise with many nations .
“ The word of the Lord came to me : ‘ Now you , son of man , raise a lamentation over Tyre , and say to Tyre , who dwells @ @ @ @ @ @ @ merchant of the peoples to many coastlands , thus says the Lord God : “ O Tyre , you have said , ‘ I am perfect in beauty.
’ … Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind ; silver , iron , tin , and lead they exchanged for your wares .
Javan , Tubal , and Meshech traded with you ; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise ” ‘ ” ( verses 1-3 , 12-13 ; English Standard Version ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Middle East and is a type of a major financial power rising now in Europe .
Since the people of Tubal and Meshech settled in Russia , this is a prophecy about German and Russian merchants working together to create a great mart of nations .
If Russia is prepared to hurt its own bottom line and sell oil at reduced prices just to hurt U.S. oil and gas companies , it shows that the Kremlin truly is waging a somewhat secret war against America—and Germany is prophesied to help Russia in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why deepening cooperation between Germany and Russia is a sure sign of future conflict , read “ Germany and Russia ’ s Secret War Against America , ” by Gerald Flurry .

Saudi Arabia has launched what could end up being one of the worst oil price wars in modern history, and American oil and gas companies could be caught in the cross fire. With fears about a coronavirus epidemic effecting demand for oil around the world, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec) met in Vienna, Austria, on March 6 to propose that total oil output be reduced by 1.5 million barrels a day to prevent oil prices from dropping too fast. Yet Russia refused to cooperate with opec and cut its oil production. This refusal prompted Saudi Arabia to announce that it would not be cutting oil production either. Instead it would increase its oil production by 2 million barrels per day.
In an already oversupplied global market, Saudi Arabia’s announcement caused Brent crude oil prices to plunge 31 percent to a low of $31.25 a barrel, its steepest single-day drop since the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
It only costs $9.90 for Saudi Arabia to pump a barrel of crude oil out of an existing oil field, while it takes Russia $17.20 to do the same thing. So the Saudi government figures it can survive low oil prices much longer than Russia can.
But the heart of this dispute revolves around America’s oil and gas companies.
On February 18, the Trump administration announced economic sanctions targeting Russia’s largest oil company. The reason for these sanctions is that Russia is helping Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro bypass United States sanctions by transporting his oil for him. Russian President Vladimir Putin may have been retaliating against the Trump administration by refusing to cut oil production. Since most U.S. oil wells have a break-even point of $36.20 a barrel over their production life, American oil and gas companies (which rely heavily on expensive hydraulic fracturing techniques) cannot turn a profit when oil prices are this low.
The U.S. has also passed sanctions against companies involved in constructing the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, saying it is a “tool of coercion” to make the European Union more dependent on Russian gas.
“The Kremlin has decided to sacrifice opec+ to stop U.S. shale producers and punish the U.S. for messing with Nord Stream 2,” the president of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow told Bloomberg News.
Saudi Arabia’s response probably pushed prices far lower than Russia expected. These low oil prices may hurt Russia’s economy more than they hurt the U.S. economy, and could actually boost the U.S. economy overall. But in the short term, they will likely hurt U.S. oil and gas companies. In Russia’s geopolitical calculus, anything it can do to prevent America from becoming a net energy exporter strengthens the Kremlin’s influence over nations like Venezuela and Germany. So for the time being, Russia seems willing to suffer through low oil prices to prevent America from developing its oil fields to the point where it can start offering nations an alternative to Russian energy.
The most important player in the complicated world of energy politics is Germany. The U.S. is sanctioning Russia’s largest oil company in an effort to reduce Russian influence in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Yet Germany wants to develop closer energy deals with Russia as a means of reducing its reliance on the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
“When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (nato) was started back in 1949, its basic purpose was to protect disarmed Germany and other European countries from the Russian-led Soviet Union,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in the September 2018 Trumpet issue. “Nord Stream 2 binds Russia and Germany together in a way that undermines nato. In fact, though Russia and Germany will not say so, this pipeline project is clearly intended to wreck nato. … Many elite Germans feel their nation has now gotten all it can from the U.S. and they are ready to move on.”
Unlike the Russian economy, the U.S. economy is not particularly dependent on oil. So as long as Germany supports America, the worst that is likely to happen from Russia’s oil price war is that U.S. energy companies may have to shut down their hydraulic fracturing operations for a while until oil prices rebound. But if Germany’s desire for cheap Russian gas brings about a German-Russian alliance against the United States, things could get bad quickly.
International relations expert George Friedman gave a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in February 2015. He explained that the U.S. government actively works to prevent a German-Russian alliance because the combination of German technology with Russian natural resources could create a Eurasian power bloc with the capability to challenge America’s position as the world’s lone superpower.
The Trumpet and our parent magazine, the Plain Truth, have proclaimed for 80 years that Germany will lead a final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire. And the Bible reveals that Russia will play a key role in Germany’s rise to power.
A prophecy in Ezekiel 27 describes a trading power called Tyre that exchanges merchandise with many nations. “The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre, and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God: “O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’ … Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise”‘” (verses 1-3, 12-13; English Standard Version).
Tyre was the commercial heart of the the Middle East and is a type of a major financial power rising now in Europe. Since the people of Tubal and Meshech settled in Russia, this is a prophecy about German and Russian merchants working together to create a great mart of nations. If Russia is prepared to hurt its own bottom line and sell oil at reduced prices just to hurt U.S. oil and gas companies, it shows that the Kremlin truly is waging a somewhat secret war against America—and Germany is prophesied to help Russia in this endeavor.
For more information on why deepening cooperation between Germany and Russia is a sure sign of future conflict, read “Germany and Russia’s Secret War Against America,” by Gerald Flurry.


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Coronavirus and Bible Prophecy (13 minutes)
The coronavirus continues to spread around the world. In this segment, I talk about the geopolitical impact the virus could have and how it pertains to Bible prophecy.
Politicizing Coronavirus (17 minutes)
President Donald Trump’s opponents are using the coronavirus as a political tool to undermine his presidency. This dangerous tactic is causing widespread panic and undermining genuine attempts to control the outbreak.
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Traveling is crucial to expanding your education. In this segment, I look back at some of the great figures of history and explain what they learned from traveling.


thetrumpet--2020-03-10--Coronavirus, Declarations of War, and You

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If your life hasn’t changed yet as a result of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, it probably will soon.
As I write, there are only about 35 active cases here in Israel. That small number, however, has led to the precautionary quarantining of about 80,000 Israelis—a stunning number indicative of Israel’s stringent measures to slow down the spread. And “slow down” is all that Israel is attempting to do. The authorities know that it’s impossible to stop.
I’m yet to be quarantined, but it’s been close.
Each day I visit the Israel Ministry of Health website to see if I’ve unknowingly crossed paths with someone who has the virus.
It turns out when I walked instead of taking the bus last week, I may have averted a potential interaction with a carrier. Then I avoided another one when my family shopped at our local grocer on a Thursday instead of a Wednesday. Then again when my wife and I walked past one of our favorite cafés instead of dropping in for a latte.
Being in my 30s, I’m outside the danger age associated with the contagion, so I’m not overly worried about contracting the virus.
However, having to retrace my steps to see if I’ve been exposed, attempting to get money back for a canceled flight, giving a suspicious side look when someone sneezes on the bus, and even wondering at the store if I should put a few extra cans of baked beans in the trolley are all new experiences for me.
Indeed, they are incidental effects, hardly worth mentioning compared to those who have the disease or have died from it.
Nevertheless, these changes are worth considering because I can’t recall a time when something so completely outside my control has impacted my family’s routine, plans, thought processes and, potentially, well-being.
And perhaps, given the widespread reach of the virus, it has impacted your life as well.
It is worth considering further that if my life has been so impacted by 35 people out of a country of 8 million carrying a comparatively weak though contagious virus, what would happen if coronavirus were more dangerous, more contagious or more potent?
What if catching such a disease was actually a risk to my life? How would my daily routine be impacted? More importantly, how could I protect my family?
How could you protect yours?
Some are hopeful that the coronavirus pandemic will produce a global unified response to tackle the disease—that the joint distress will encourage nations to pull together in the spirit of “the brotherhood of mankind.” If this happens in the short term, it will be purely motivated out of the desire to look after our own rather than caring for others.
If you are on social media, no doubt you’ve witnessed images of desperation as people in grocery stores with full shopping carts wrestle each other for the last pack of toilet paper—that’s right, toilet paper.
We may laugh at such a scene or shake our heads, but if push comes to shove, our own human natures would likely act in the same way.
And international politics are not much different.
For those hoping nations will come together to cope with the world crises, consider what happened today.
In mere seconds, the oil price dropped by almost 30 percent—its largest drop since the first Gulf War in 1991.
This was not the result of an Iranian attack on oil infrastructure or the outbreak of another Middle East war. It was entirely self-induced; simply the international version of two ladies fighting over toilet paper at the grocery store.
Here’s what happened.
Global demand for oil has fallen, due largely to the coronavirus. As oil-producing nations tried to mitigate the losses, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies were negotiating with Russia to ensure that everyone cut their output, which would have preserved the price for everyone.
But Russia disagreed. Yesterday Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “I want to stress that for the Russian budget, for our economy, the current oil prices level is acceptable.”
Saudi Arabia didn’t like that response and increased its own output by as much as 2 million barrels per day. On top of that, it also cut its selling price to China and other Asian nations.
It put more oil out there and made it even cheaper!
“The Saudi move was no shot across the bows aimed at Russia’s reluctance to extend and boost a deal to curb production,” wrote Clyde Russell for Reuters. “Instead, it was a full-on declaration of war.” Russell compared the Saudi Arabian move to detonating “a metaphorical nuclear weapon in the global oil market.”
Saudi Arabia is hurting its own economy by selling oil far less than cost in order to drive down prices for oil elsewhere.
In effect, if Putin doesn’t want to lower Russia’s oil price, Saudi Arabia will lower it for him. And take the global oil market down with it.
Such is an example of the international response to coronavirus: “A declaration of war!”
So much for the “brotherhood of man.”
Clearly, witnessing such scenes play out in the international arena, or even in our local grocery stores, doesn’t provide much hope for a unified response to the virus.
It also doesn’t bode well for the future global problems on the horizon.
Given how our lives are being impacted by something like coronavirus, what will happen when more severe trials come upon us?
The Bible speaks of a time just ahead of us when violent contagions, often referred to as pestilence, will spread over the globe, somewhat akin to what we see with coronavirus.
In fact, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote recently that God is actually preparing the timing and ferocity of these plagues right now. (Please take time to read his cover story from the latest Trumpet magazine: “Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues in Prophecy.”)
To many, it might seem odd for a loving God to send such plagues upon His own creation. But God is always trying to get our attention in order to lead us toward His way of happiness.
Even in such plagues there is hope. Mr. Flurry wrote:
[God] is not destroying indiscriminately: He is punishing the world in love and in measure—to help mankind turn from the paths of destruction to the way of truth and peace. God will allow the diseases and other afflictions … to affect mankind to precisely the degree needed to help them repent—no more, no less.
Bible prophecy tells us that such plagues will definitely get more severe as time goes on. Perhaps God has allowed this relatively weak pandemic to go across the globe because it is just the degree of correction that someone needs to turn to Him.
Could that someone be you?
If you haven’t already, please read “Coronavirus and Other Modern Plagues in Prophecy.”


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“Europe Loses Its Soul at the Border”

Europeans won’t forget 2015. It was the time when millions of refugees from Africa and the Middle East embarked on their journey to Europe. It was the time when Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to open Germany’s borders, hoping that other European countries would follow suit. The subsequent crisis, which some call a loss of control, changed Europe’s political landscape dramatically.
Another refugee crisis is now looming, but rather than being welcomed with open arms, Europeans are turning their back on this new wave of migrants. What has changed?
Largely due to Turkey’s efforts to prevent refugees from traveling to Europe, the refugee crisis has been halted in recent years. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has now opened his country’s borders for migrants to travel to Greece. In hopes of a better life, tens of thousands have taken the journey.
With his decision, Erdoğan has tried to force Europe to get more involved in Syria. Judging by Europe’s compassionate reaction in 2015, he likely believed that the sight of thousands of refugees risking their lives to cross into the Continent would move the European Union and European heads of state to act quickly.
But that’s not how it played out.
All agreed to not give in to Erdoğan’s pressure—with some having strong opinions on the matter. In an interview with n-TV.de, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz claimed that Erdoğan was trying to “organize an attack on Europe.” Journalists evoked the same imagery. Yet as video footage from the border shows, the thousands of refugees, many of whom are women and children, seem rather helpless.
Turkey opened its borders, promising refugees a new home in Europe. But Greece, backed by the EU, remained closed. Police forces, Greece’s military, and barricades of barbed wire quickly ended the migrants’ hopes. Frustrated refugees threw stones. Greek police fired tear gas.
Europe isn’t prepared to handle the crisis in a humane way. The EU still lacks a common asylum policy and effective protection of its external border. Even Germany’s Bundestag refused to accept 5,000 minor refugees from Greek camps. “Unlike in 2015, almost all parties now shy away from German solo efforts in refugee policy,” n-TV.de noted.
In 2015, many Europeans went the extra mile to take in refugees. Today, the situation is quite different. People have become desensitized to the suffering of the refugees and fear that an open-border policy would only further increase the popularity of Europe’s far right.
In 2015 and 2016, enraged Europeans set refugee centers ablaze and attacked migrants. Many refugees showed themselves ungrateful toward their new hosts, refusing integration, plotting terrorist attacks, forming migrant gangs, and sexually assaulting European women.
European leaders evidently don’t want to go through another refugee crisis. But to avoid a crisis at home, the EU is risking a humanitarian crisis at its borders.
In “Europe Loses Its Soul at the Border,” Zeit wrote on March 5: “Where are human rights when they are needed? Screaming women, men and children at the Greek-Turkish border are obviously not human enough.”
Countries that closed their borders in 2015, like Hungary under Viktor Orbán, were shunned at the time; today, the policy has become the norm. “The situation is similar to 2015. But the EU countries in the east are no longer on a confrontation course with Brussels,” Die Welt noted on March 4 in “Orbán Prevails.” “This is less because they changed their policies. It is the EU that has moved toward Hungary or Poland.”
The 2015 crisis enabled and strengthened the rise of various right-wing leaders throughout Europe. It changed the stance of French President Emmanuel Macron, who recently spoke increasingly against Islam and migrant-friendly policies.
“‘The door is closed,’ the European press judged, almost in unison, about the new migration crisis on the border with Greece. Europe does not want new flows of refugees,” Die Welt wrote on March 3.
“The European heart has become very cold,” the Belgian De Standaard stated.
As a consequence of 2015, we have seen a handful of leaders unite against Chancellor Merkel’s policies. Europe, as a whole, has shifted somewhat to the right. In 2020, we can expect more of the same, and perhaps even a change at the top of Germany’s very own government. Trumpet writer Warren Reinsch described further ramifications that the recent crisis could have in his article “Millions of Syrian Refugees to Hasten Rise of European Military.”
Today, Europeans are much more willing to accept authoritarian leaders who would take what would have previously been unacceptable measures to prevent another crisis.
The Bible reveals that this mood change will enable the rise of a “king of fierce countenance” (Daniel 8:23). Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in A Strong German Leader Is Imminent that this leader will be invited in during a time of crisis (Daniel 11:21). “Given the atmosphere of crisis and the political climate in Germany today, we should watch for this prophecy to be fulfilled at any time!” Mr. Flurry noted in 2015.
The Bible reveals that Europe, in this end time, will see the rise of 10 kings who have one mind (Revelation 17). Prophecies in Daniel 11 and Psalm 83 show that these leaders will unite with Turkey to lead various military campaigns in the Middle East, just as Turkey demands today. But the Bible also reveals that at the head of Europe’s 10 kings will be a strong leader who will go far beyond what Turkey is calling for.
Another refugee crisis could further change Europe’s political landscape and lead to the fulfillment of these prophecies. Request a free copy of The King of the South, by Gerald Flurry, to learn where these trends are leading and see how accurately the Bible prophesied about them.