thetrumpet--2020-01-23--Why is Germany Leading the Push for a Libyan Peace Process?

A family picture at the chancellery on January 19 in Berlin : ( Front , from left ) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan , French President Emmanuel Macron , German Chancellor Angela Merkel , UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres ; ( Back , from left ) European Council President Charles Michel , German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Europe ’ s attempt to bring peace to Libya is actually leading to war .
Top-ranking officials from governments around the globe gathered in Berlin , Germany , on January 19 to discuss solutions to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ follows a January 16 visit by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to Benghazi .
These events mark what could be the beginning of an expanded German role in Libya .
Representatives arrived in Berlin from numerous nations : Algeria , China , Egypt , France , Germany , Italy , the Republic of the Congo , Russia , Turkey , United Arab Emirates , the United Kingdom and the United States .
For Europe , the conference was a diplomatic embarrassment .
Turkey and Russia agreed to a truce , but the European @ @ @ @ @ @ @ approach .
Meanwhile , hostility remained strong between the opposing Libyan leaders : Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army and Fayez al-Sarraj of the Government of National Accord .
The two refused to speak to one another or enter the same room .
The conference became another reason for the media to call for German intervention in Libya .
German media have been critical of the entire event .
German-Foreign-Policy.com highlighted comments from Wolfram Lacher of the Berlin-based swp think tank , who said anyone who thought the conference was a success @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” Zeit lamented “ the German disability , ” which has made the country “ dependent on stronger powers ” for influence in such conflicts .
Although Germany and the EU so far appear paralyzed , Germany will get much more involved .
The EU ’ s chief diplomat , High Representative Josep Borrell , signaled a major shift in Operation Sophia during a press conference on January 20 .
Sophia started as a means to control migration .
Europe will now “ revive ” and “ refocus ” the mission to cover @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Borrell said that his staff had been “ analyzing the situation after the Berlin conference and how the EU can engage more forcefully.
” This is a major and overlooked change .
It gives new life to the operation , which has not had any warships allocated to it for some months .
Borrell also hinted that the mandate for Sophia would soon include Europe ’ s armies and air forces : “ We also have to control the land and the air , ” he stated .
Radical Islam in North Africa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ described Libya as “ a sort of tumor , which has metastasized throughout the region and that unbalances all the countries around the Sahara.
” He noted that Sahel nations lost 1,500 soldiers in 2019 , the highest number since 2012 .
Including civilian deaths brings that total to roughly 4,000 .
The crisis in Libya provides an opening for the EU to ramp up its military presence in this troubled strategic region .
As early as 2016 , Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry identified peacekeeping missions in Libya as an ideal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ situation in Libya is a good pretext for the Europeans to move down to secure this area so critical to controlling the Mediterranean , ” he wrote in ” Mediterranean Battle Escalating Into World War III !
” Fast-forward to today , and the same situation exists , only with greater urgency .
Libya is a proxy-war battleground .
Factions backed by Russia and Turkey , in addition to radical Islamic groups , have carved up the entire country .
Amidst this , Europe is being encouraged to fill the void as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Europe ’ s leaders is not political , but military .
Borrell said that “ all assumptions are on the table.
” Germany is likely to send troops in the future .
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Greek Prime Minister Kyriákos Mitsotákis have already made clear that they are ready to send soldiers on an EU mission , according to German-Foreign-Policy.com .
France , Europe ’ s largest military power , is already involved in the neighboring Sahel region and would also likely contribute .
For the past six years , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s struggle with migrants making their way through North Africa and navigating the treacherous Mediterranean Sea .
If radical Islamic groups controlled Libya , European ships would be attacked and terrorism rates on the Continent would spike .
But controlling Libya is about more than migrants .
Libya is a major oil exporter , which Europe wants to keep in its orbit .
In World War ii , Germany and Italy under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel tried to control North Africa .
Vast oil supplies vital to the war effort were a major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ controlling Europe ’ s underbelly afforded , effectively turning the Mediterranean into a German lake .
This failed : Malta held out against German bombing , and Rommel was driven back by stronger allied forces .
But Germany learned its lesson .
Though it comes in as a peacemaker today , Germany is thinking strategically .
It is preparing for war .
Mr .
Flurry wrote that such an arrangement is “ [ p ] roviding the perfect cover for German ambition , ” and in reality , “ the European peacekeeping force @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rommel ’ s goal of complete dominance of the Mediterranean !
” “ Italy and Germany had a dream of a great African empire and world empire , ” he said .
“ Though most might not even think about it , Germany and many Europeans still have that dream today !
” How could he make such bold and prescient statements about unstable Libya almost four years ago ?
The answer lies in a specific passage of biblical prophecy .
The Prophet Daniel described a time near the return of Jesus Christ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would clash with the forces of radical Islam , led by Iran ( request our free booklet The King of the South to learn more ) .
That prophesied clash is found in Daniel 11:40 .
Verse 44 mentions Libya and Ethiopia in the context of this war .
As we have written before , Germany is preparing a specific strategy to counteract radical Islam .
Mr .
Flurry writes about this “ whirlwind ” strategy , explaining , “ Germany has expected to clash with Iran , and it has been working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more .
That strategy is almost complete .
Germany has surrounded Iran.
” Radical Islam , sponsored and led by Iran , will try to seize territory along the Mediterranean .
But Europe will not let this happen .
Germany ’ s increasing role in Libya is leading to a confrontation , which will impact the entire world .
It is leading to a war , which will encompass , not only the Middle East , but even the United States and Britain .
To read more about what to expect from Germany @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Mediterranean Battle Escalating Into World War III !
” by Gerald Flurry .

Top-ranking officials from governments around the globe gathered in Berlin, Germany, on January 19 to discuss solutions to the civil war in Libya. The conference follows a January 16 visit by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas to Benghazi. These events mark what could be the beginning of an expanded German role in Libya.
Representatives arrived in Berlin from numerous nations: Algeria, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of the Congo, Russia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
For Europe, the conference was a diplomatic embarrassment. Turkey and Russia agreed to a truce, but the European Union was most noticed for its indecisive approach. Meanwhile, hostility remained strong between the opposing Libyan leaders: Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army and Fayez al-Sarraj of the Government of National Accord. The two refused to speak to one another or enter the same room.
The conference became another reason for the media to call for German intervention in Libya. German media have been critical of the entire event. German-Foreign-Policy.com highlighted comments from Wolfram Lacher of the Berlin-based swp think tank, who said anyone who thought the conference was a success was living in a “parallel realty.” Zeit lamented “the German disability,” which has made the country “dependent on stronger powers” for influence in such conflicts.
Although Germany and the EU so far appear paralyzed, Germany will get much more involved.
The EU’s chief diplomat, High Representative Josep Borrell, signaled a major shift in Operation Sophia during a press conference on January 20. Sophia started as a means to control migration. Europe will now “revive” and “refocus” the mission to cover enforcement of the Libyan arms embargo. Borrell said that his staff had been “analyzing the situation after the Berlin conference and how the EU can engage more forcefully.”
This is a major and overlooked change. It gives new life to the operation, which has not had any warships allocated to it for some months. Borrell also hinted that the mandate for Sophia would soon include Europe’s armies and air forces: “We also have to control the land and the air,” he stated.
Radical Islam in North Africa has become impossible to ignore. Borrell described Libya as “a sort of tumor, which has metastasized throughout the region and that unbalances all the countries around the Sahara.” He noted that Sahel nations lost 1,500 soldiers in 2019, the highest number since 2012. Including civilian deaths brings that total to roughly 4,000.
The crisis in Libya provides an opening for the EU to ramp up its military presence in this troubled strategic region.
As early as 2016, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry identified peacekeeping missions in Libya as an ideal cloak for German ambition. “The situation in Libya is a good pretext for the Europeans to move down to secure this area so critical to controlling the Mediterranean,” he wrote in”Mediterranean Battle Escalating Into World War III!”
Fast-forward to today, and the same situation exists, only with greater urgency. Libya is a proxy-war battleground. Factions backed by Russia and Turkey, in addition to radical Islamic groups, have carved up the entire country. Amidst this, Europe is being encouraged to fill the void as a peacemaker.
Yet the solution being pondered by Europe’s leaders is not political, but military. Borrell said that “all assumptions are on the table.” Germany is likely to send troops in the future. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Greek Prime Minister Kyriákos Mitsotákis have already made clear that they are ready to send soldiers on an EU mission, according to German-Foreign-Policy.com. France, Europe’s largest military power, is already involved in the neighboring Sahel region and would also likely contribute.
For the past six years, the world has focused on Europe’s struggle with migrants making their way through North Africa and navigating the treacherous Mediterranean Sea. If radical Islamic groups controlled Libya, European ships would be attacked and terrorism rates on the Continent would spike. But controlling Libya is about more than migrants. Libya is a major oil exporter, which Europe wants to keep in its orbit.
In World War ii, Germany and Italy under Field Marshall Erwin Rommel tried to control North Africa. Vast oil supplies vital to the war effort were a major reason. Another was the security that controlling Europe’s underbelly afforded, effectively turning the Mediterranean into a German lake. This failed: Malta held out against German bombing, and Rommel was driven back by stronger allied forces. But Germany learned its lesson.
Though it comes in as a peacemaker today, Germany is thinking strategically. It is preparing for war. Mr. Flurry wrote that such an arrangement is “[p]roviding the perfect cover for German ambition,” and in reality, “the European peacekeeping force will help Germany move closer to realizing Rommel’s goal of complete dominance of the Mediterranean!”
“Italy and Germany had a dream of a great African empire and world empire,” he said. “Though most might not even think about it, Germany and many Europeans still have that dream today!”
How could he make such bold and prescient statements about unstable Libya almost four years ago? The answer lies in a specific passage of biblical prophecy.
The Prophet Daniel described a time near the return of Jesus Christ when Europe, led by Germany, would clash with the forces of radical Islam, led by Iran (request our free booklet The King of the South to learn more). That prophesied clash is found in Daniel 11:40. Verse 44 mentions Libya and Ethiopia in the context of this war.
As we have written before, Germany is preparing a specific strategy to counteract radical Islam. Mr. Flurry writes about this “whirlwind” strategy, explaining, “Germany has expected to clash with Iran, and it has been working on a strategy for a decade or more. That strategy is almost complete. Germany has surrounded Iran.”
Radical Islam, sponsored and led by Iran, will try to seize territory along the Mediterranean. But Europe will not let this happen. Germany’s increasing role in Libya is leading to a confrontation, which will impact the entire world. It is leading to a war, which will encompass, not only the Middle East, but even the United States and Britain.
To read more about what to expect from Germany’s involvement in Libya, read “Mediterranean Battle Escalating Into World War III!” by Gerald Flurry.


thetrumpet--2020-01-23--Spain Forms Unstable Hard-Left Government

Sir Winston Churchill seen here at his desk during the Second World War .
From ‘ The Life and Times of Winston Churchill ’ , by Malcolm Thomson .
Do you have time to read history ?
The situation in America , Britain and across the globe is now a slow-motion world crisis ready to explode .
And for that reason , I submit to you that you no longer have time not to read history .
When Winston Churchill faced his world crisis , he had to muster every ounce of knowledge , wisdom and courage he had accumulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his people , their nation and its virtues .
Imagine if that lifetime had been spent flipping through the sports pages , reading trashy novels , and relaxing at the cinema , absorbing frivolous content .
If Churchill ’ s mental diet had been anything less than what it was , he could have never become the one statesman alive whom God could use to save Western civilization .
What was it that Churchill did devour ?
As the crisis struck , what was it that fueled him ?
To Winston Churchill , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hobby .
It was his identity .
William Manchester wrote in The Last Lion : Visions of Glory , “ Churchill did not simply observe the historical continuum ; he made himself part of it .
… He did not live in the past ; the past lived on in him.
” That is what history is .
It is our shared , extended , personal memory .
Most of us just ignore it or forget it .
And we therefore plunge into the world crisis totally vulnerable .
“ History was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lens he used to bring reality into focus , ” Stephen Mansfield writes in Never Give In : The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill .
“ Churchill thought historically , meaning that he understood life in terms of generations , great men , the succession of ages , heroic events , noble conflicts and the linear connections of time .
… “ For him history was more than something to study ; it was a way of thinking .
As Lord Ismay , Churchill ’ s chief of staff , said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the time .
He felt that the light of history played upon all that we did , and he acted accordingly.
’ ” In the preface to Churchill ’ s History of the English-Speaking Peoples , Henry Steele Commager wrote that the work , almost two decades in the making , “ was a very personal book , ” like almost everything else Churchill had written : A Roving Commission , The River War , The World Crisis , Marlborough , The Second World War .
“ This history was a project @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and long in his mind , as well.
” Studying history informs you of your identity !
Why are the minds of most people—the sports fans , the cinema-goers , the app-users of our day—so adrift , so ignorant , so susceptible to trivialities and insidious ideologies ?
Why don ’ t they know their own identity ?
They don ’ t remember history .
Churchill became a dynamic , vibrant , pulsating part of his people ’ s history .
His boldness , ambition and passion for empire impelled him to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , save things .
His exhilarant way of living added richness and color to his writings .
One of the history books Churchill read—as a history book—was Exodus .
He wrote an essay in 1931 titled “ Moses : The Leader of the People.
” In it , he took issue with skeptics who said Moses was only an allegorical figure .
Moses , Churchill replied , “ was the national hero who led the chosen people out of the land of bondage , through the perils of the wilderness , and brought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Promised Land ….
” Churchill wrote this essay at the beginning of the “ wilderness years , ” when he was a political outcast languishing on the back benches of the House of Commons .
Every prophet , Churchill continued , has to go into the wilderness !
“ He must have a strong impression of a complex society and all that it has to give , and then he must serve periods of isolation and meditation .
This is the process by which psychic dynamite is made ” ( ibid. )
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@ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the 1930s .
When the ruling class was disarming Britain and coddling Adolf Hitler , he was making psychic dynamite .
During that decade , he wrote 11 books and hundreds of articles , and delivered dozens of speeches in Parliament .
While his countrymen were fast asleep , he sounded a jarring alarm .
He was the only Briton who was actually preparing for war during those so-called wilderness years .
He wrote his four-volume , 1 million-word masterpiece Marlborough between 1933 and 1938 .
This deep dive into history helped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hour .
Commager said this about Churchill ’ s famous ancestor and Britain ’ s most decoarated general : “ The hero was a man after Churchill ’ s heart : the greatest soldier in the annals of the race , ever victorious and ever magnanimous ; the statesman who welded together a continental alliance ; the diplomat who mediated between the English , the Dutch , the Prussians and the empire ; the captain loved by his soldiers , trusted by his allies , respected by his enemies .
But the theme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing less than the theme of the struggle for Europe ” ( emphasis added ) .
This was more than a work of history , said one British historian .
This was a biography that changed history .
When Churchill finally came to power in 1940 , he was prepared for battle .
The story from his nation ’ s glorious past—a story he knew well—continued living right into the present .
As an avid lover of history , Winston Churchill was advised , inspired and motivated by giants of history like the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t know if he knew it , but the history of the Israelites recorded in Exodus was especially , literally personal to Churchill , and not just because the British needed supernatural deliverance .
The Israelites were , in fact , his ancestors , just as was Marlborough .
In fact , the Israelites are your ancestors .
Their history is your history .
This is true of those who physically descended from the Israelites ( mainly the modern English-speaking peoples ) , but it is also true in a spiritual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s true Church , “ the Israel of God , ” as Galatians 6:16 describes it .
As a Trumpet Brief reader , you are in very close contact with that Church .
It ’ s possible that you could be among those few whom God is calling into it .
The Bible clearly establishes that God ’ s Church is spiritual Israel .
The history of the Church and the history of its predecessor , physical Israel , is the most important history you can study .
This is especially true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You are going to need every bit of true , deep , actionable history you can get your mind on .
God wants His people to know their history .
Psalm 137:1-2 poetically portray one of the many tragedies of our history : “ By the rivers of Babylon , there we sat down , yea , we wept , when we remembered Zion .
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
” Ezra most likely composed this after the last Israelite tribes , in the kingdom of Judah @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jerusalem fell .
They had forgotten their history .
They did not feel strongly about God ’ s city , His history and His virtues .
So God finally took away that city and their nation .
God chose Jerusalem ( Zechariah 3:2 ) .
This is His city , and He has a strong opinion about it !
God has chosen not to give up on human beings .
He has chosen to see His inspiring , hope-filled plan through , in spite of our horrible sins , and He is doing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people and a specific city .
It is a grave mistake to take any of that lightly !
If you care about what God cares about , you care about the history of God ’ s plan and His city .
You focus on , you want to be part of , what God is doing through His Work .
You learn God ’ s history , and you dare not forget it .
Hosea 4:6 warns us , “ [ S ] eeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The captives in Babylon lamented , “ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth , saying , Sing us one of the songs of Zion .
How shall we sing the Lord ’ s song in a strange land ?
If I forget thee , O Jerusalem , let my right hand forget her cunning ” ( Psalm 137:3-5 ) .
The psalmist would rather lose something as near and dear to his everyday activity as his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and all that God has done and will do through that city !
He goes on to pronounce on himself a double curse : to also lose his ability to speak and to sing : “ If I do not remember thee , let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy ” ( verse 6 ) .
Here was the psalmist ’ s attitude : If I do not prefer God ’ s nation , His people , His holy city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ His holy ordinances , then take away the use of my arm and my voice !
Holy Father , make Jerusalem my chief joy !
Lange ’ s Commentary says to make Jerusalem “ the head of my joy , ” make it the “ highest joy.
” Another commentator translates this phrase , “ If I set not Jerusalem as a diadem upon the head of my rejoicing and crown all my happiness with it.
” Tens of thousands of people have actually been part of the spiritual “ Israel of God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have turned away from the amazing history of God ’ s work .
Many of them are even attacking it .
“ Remember , O Lord , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem ; who said , Rase it , rase it , even to the foundation thereof ” ( verse 7 ) .
This whole passage describes not only the lament of ancient Jews in Babylonian captivity , but also the future result of the coming world crisis !
Those who have known God but treated His work and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be taken into a bitter captivity by the modern Babylonians !
A major part of their sin is that they forgot Jerusalem !
“ God gives us projects like participating in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem and building Him a house in order to keep our focus on a future Jerusalem headquarters , ” my father , Gerald Flurry , writes in The Book of Chronicles .
“ How important are those projects to each one of us personally ?
If our thinking is right , we will be exuding excitement for them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lord , shalt endure for ever ; and thy remembrance unto all generations .
Thou shalt arise , and have mercy upon Zion : for the time to favour her , yea , the set time , is come .
For thy servants take pleasure in her stones , and favour the dust thereof .
So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord , and all the kings of the earth thy glory .
When the Lord shall build up Zion , he shall appear in his glory ” ( Psalm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are living in historic times .
I daresay it is time to shake out of your right hand the distracting smartphone apps , the gaming , the frivolity and dissipation .
It ’ s time to devote your precious hours to serious pursuits that could very well be life-saving pursuits .
It ’ s time to become part of something bigger than yourself .
It ’ s time to become part of history .
To begin your study of the most important history , may I recommend these two free works from our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Watchman and The Former Prophets .

After several months of negotiations, Spain finally has a government. On January 13, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his cabinet were sworn into office as the country’s first coalition government in its over 40 years as a democracy. The path to this point has been rough, and it is unlikely to change with the new government.
In November, Spain held its fourth election in four years. Although the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party was the largest party, no one had a clear path to government. After weeks of talks, Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez finally secured a deal to form a minority coalition government—about the most unstable arrangement possible.
On January 7, Congress voted in Sánchez as prime minister with 167 votes to 165, with 18 abstentions.
His coalition partner is Podemos, a hard-left communistic party. Sánchez once said that he wouldn’t be able “to sleep at night” if he ever did a deal with Podemos. But the election result didn’t offer any easy options.
Separatist members of parliament, who want Catalonia or the Basque Country to split from Spain, abstained from the confidence vote to allow Sánchez to come to power. Although not a formal part of his government, they will have to at least abstain on legislation to allow it to pass.
The radical left is now at the helm of a major European government—and pushing some radical, even dangerous, new policies.
The new government has plans to minimize living expenses by implementing rent controls. The government intends to place limits on the amount a landlord can charge for rent. It addresses the effect of a housing shortage (high rents) but does nothing to address the cause. As Swedish professor of economics Assar Lindbeck said, “In many cases, rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”
Another big part of the coalition’s platform is massive spending. It plans to increase spending by 1 percent of the economy on health care alone. Another 1 percent increase will go toward education, while slashing student fees. It’s talking about free child care for children up to age 3, and 16 weeks of paid parental leave for both fathers and mothers. There is also talk of introducing a universal basic income.
All of this will lead to massive borrowing, an all too familiar problem for Spain. Over-borrowing led to Spain’s 2008 to 2014 financial crisis and the 2012 eurozone bailout.
Although its financial crisis is technically over, Spain still has big debt problems. With the promise of further massive borrowing, this is opening a can of worms in Europe. The specter of another financial crisis in Spain is causing Germany to worry: It knows that it will bear the burden in the end, as it has the strongest economy in Europe. This is giving Germany further incentive to step in and extend its control.
In all of this, Spain’s political crisis demonstrates the return of another dangerous trend.
In the 1920s and ’30s, Europe experienced the rise of political extremism. The people of Europe were unsatisfied with the governments they had and wanted radical change. It wasn’t only the far-right Nazi Party that rose to power during that period; far-left parties had a simultaneous rise.
The same is true today. With the financial crisis and dissatisfaction with mainstream democracy, people are increasingly voting for both the far right and the far left. Spain has just received a hard-left government with an outright Communist in its cabinet, but in the November general elections, Spain’s far-right Vox Party, which had only been in existence for six years, made a stunning surge in popularity, more than doubling its seats and becoming the country’s third-most powerful party. The people aren’t just voting for one extreme. They are voting for change—major change. This rise of extremism in Spain is a symptom of the political uncertainty spreading throughout Europe.
As democracy continues to fail, people are hungering for a strong leader who will make things happen. At the same time, political chaos and massive spending are paving the way for Germany to get more involved in Spain and elsewhere. This is why the Trumpet continually points to a strong leader coming from Germany. Scriptures throughout the Bible prophesy of this coming strongman.
Daniel 8 prophesies that “a king of fierce countenance” will stand up “in the latter time” (verse 23). Revelation 17 talks about 10 kings who will rule over Europe and submit to one strongman.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explained these prophecies in his article “Germany—A New King Is Imminent.” He wrote:
Germany today is crying out for a stronger leader, and the European Union wants stronger leadership and direction from Germany. … This soon-coming ruler could literally be called a king. Even if he is not, the Bible gives him that title. When the Bible talks about a king, in most cases it is not referring to a democratic government. Even if he doesn’t have the title of “king,” he will lead like an absolute monarch.
What we are seeing right now in Spain is a trend that is spreading throughout Europe. I catalog this trend in my article “Europe: Ripe for Rising Demagogues.” Just like the 1920s and ’30s, Europe is facing uncertainty and the rise of extremism. This was the uncertainty that radical Adolf Hitler needed to rise. The result will be no different today.
Europe is demanding change, and change it is prophesied to get. To understand this prophesied rise to power of a German dictator who will lead all of Europe, please read Mr. Flurry’s free booklet A Strong German Leader Is Imminent.


thetrumpet--2020-01-22--Taiwan Elections: Independence for How Much Longer?

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory in elections on January 11, extending her term for another four years. It will be another four years of maintaining distance from China. But in the long run, it will only be successful with help from crucial allies.
Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party (dpp) won a majority in the parliament. This is the largest victory margin since 1996. The dpp came out 2.5 million votes ahead of its more pro-China challenger, the Kuomintang party. This shows a strong shift toward pro-independence politicians.
Analysts now worry that Taiwan is headed for an extended period of tensions with China. Tsai’s government firmly opposes Chinese efforts to absorb the island nation back into political unity with the mainland. Meanwhile, China regards Taiwan as a part of its sovereign territory that needs to be reclaimed. To Chinese President Xi Jinping, the island is a renegade province that must be brought back under China’s sway.
Tsai’s landslide victory is largely attributed to the Hong Kong protests. The sight of a nation in similar danger of being devoured by China motivated the Taiwanese to stand up against foreign pressure.
Now, Taiwan is rallying around the Democratic Progressive Party and its promises of independence from China. Taiwan looks set to remain strongly opposed to unity with China. But will it last?
United States President Donald Trump has been a strong supporter of Taiwan. He became the first American president since 1979 to phone the leader of the country. In 2019, he signed major defense deals worth $10 billion that mainly covered upgrading Taiwan’s F-16 fighter jets to deal with current Chinese threats. By contrast, the Obama administration refused to provide any sort of aid.
Right now, times are looking good for Taiwan. But this will be temporary.
Taiwan will not remain independent. The U.S., historically Taiwan’s most important ally, is growing more isolationist. President Trump is already focused on the Middle East, and does not want a war on foreign soil. China will take bigger risks if the U.S. is distracted or if it believes the U.S. is unwilling to commit to a long struggle.
Taiwan needs strong U.S. support in order to stand against China. Otherwise it will effectively be standing alone.
This support, though currently strong, is beginning to decline. It will end with Taiwan returning to China’s orbit.
In 1998, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote about how President Bill Clinton’s remarks on a trip to Taiwan betrayed the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. They revealed his willingness to give in to Chinese demands. This trend accelerated under the Obama administration. The Trump administration’s pro-Taiwan stance is only a brief reprieve in the collapse of American willpower abroad.
Mr. Flurry wrote in his article “Taiwan Betrayal”:
The people of Taiwan fear for their future. They feel betrayed. … Once again, America has showcased its broken will to the whole world. … How could anyone fail to see that Taiwan is destined to become a part of mainland China? These 21 million people are going to be forced into the Chinese mold; and it is going to happen for one reason: because of a pitifully weak-willed America.
Many Taiwanese desire freedom and want to keep their distance from China. But this is not in their future. How could Mr. Flurry make such a weighty forecast with such confidence? He based it on Bible prophecy, which shows that China will be one of the “kings of the east” in the time right before Jesus Christ’s return (Revelation 16:12).
These kings of the east will be led by Russia, primarily, and China, as described in Ezekiel 38. The U.S. will be nowhere on the scene by the time this mighty power is formed. Prophecy discusses America losing its strategic sea gates (Deuteronomy 28:52) and the “pride of [its] power,” or will to fight (Leviticus 26:19). In the end, Taiwan will be assimilated into mainland China as part of this rising superpower.
To learn more about this rising Asian superpower and the future of America’s allies in the Pacific, order your free copy of Russia and China in Prophecy.


thetrumpet--2020-01-22--Is Russia Preparing for War?

Is Russia Preparing for War?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu watch a military parade after a wreath laying ceremony to the Unknown Soldier Tomb marking the Defender of the Fatherland ’ s Day at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow , Russia .
Both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have amended their country ’ s constitutions in recent years to tighten their stranglehold on power .
Without constant leadership changes every few years , these two lifetime dictators can now carry out their long-term geostrategic aims .
Bible prophecy describes the rise of the “ kings of the east.
” Those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Find out more in this segment of today ’ s show .
In a recent speech , President Donald Trump said , “ We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse.
” He was taking aim at the climate change bullies who keep getting it wrong .
But how will President Trump respond to a message that explains the real truth behind what is causing natural disasters ?
House Democrats are accusing Republicans in the Senate of holding an unfair impeachment trial .
The hypocrisy couldn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Democrats held closed-door , basement hearings , refused to let White House counsel attend any hearings , and refused to disclose testimonies that didn ’ t fit their narrative .
Both Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill set a tremendous of example of staying productive when they were out of the public spotlight .
For Churchill , the years he was in the so-called “ wilderness ” were the most productive of his life !
He used that time to prepare for World War II !
In this segment , I discuss why we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prepare for the challenges ahead .
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Is Russia Preparing for War?
Czar Putin (16 minutes)
Both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have amended their country’s constitutions in recent years to tighten their stranglehold on power. Without constant leadership changes every few years, these two lifetime dictators can now carry out their long-term geostrategic aims. Bible prophecy describes the rise of the “kings of the east.” Those kings are assuming their positions right now. Find out more in this segment of today’s show.
Prophets of Doom (6 minutes)
In a recent speech, President Donald Trump said, “We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse.” He was taking aim at the climate change bullies who keep getting it wrong. But how will President Trump respond to a message that explains the real truth behind what is causing natural disasters?
Impeachment Trial? (18 minutes)
House Democrats are accusing Republicans in the Senate of holding an unfair impeachment trial. The hypocrisy couldn’t be more galling. House Democrats held closed-door, basement hearings, refused to let White House counsel attend any hearings, and refused to disclose testimonies that didn’t fit their narrative.
The ‘Wilderness Years’ (12 minutes)
Both Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill set a tremendous of example of staying productive when they were out of the public spotlight. For Churchill, the years he was in the so-called “wilderness” were the most productive of his life! He used that time to prepare for World War II! In this segment, I discuss why we must be using our time now to prepare for the challenges ahead.


thetrumpet--2020-01-22--Bernie Sanders Staffer Calls for Violent Revolution

A campaign staffer for socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been caught on tape threatening that cities will “burn” if President Donald Trump is reelected. Investigators working for Project Veritas, an organization founded by James O’Keefe, have been secretly recording Iowa field organizer Kyle Jurek’s profanity-filled tirades for months. “The only thing that fascists understand is violence,” he said. “So the only way you can confront them is with violence.”
In another conversation, Jurek said that moderate Democrats should be put to death. “I’m ready to throw down,” he said. “Walk into that msnbc studios, drag [people] out by their hair, and light them on fire in the streets. Well, I’ll tell you what, in Cuba, what did they do to reactionaries? You want to fight against the revolution; you’re going to die.”
Jurek even suggested the use of prison camps to reeducate Trump supporters. “There’s a reason Joseph Stalin had gulags, right?” he said. “Actually, gulags were a lot better than what the cia has told us that they were. Like, people were actually paid a living wage in gulags; they had conjugal visits in gulags. Gulags were actually meant for, like, reeducation. Greatest way to breaking a … billionaire of their, like, privilege and the idea that they’re superior, go out and break rocks for 12 hours a day. You’re now a working-class person and you’re going to … learn what that means, right?”
Sen. Bernie Sanders has not condemned Jurek’s comments or dismissed him from his job as a campaign organizer. Instead, the Iowa state director for the Sanders campaign dismissed the Project Veritas exposé as “political gossip” and then locked her Twitter accounts after James O’Keefe claimed she hired Jurek to work for the Sanders campaign.
And Jurek is far from the only Communist working for Bernie Sanders.
Winnie Wong and Claire Sandberg are senior figures in the Sanders campaign who traveled to Norway in 2017 to network with the Norwegian Red Party, which follows Mao Zedong’s version of communism. They also traveled to Germany in 2018 to network with Die Linke, a reincarnation of the East German Communist Party.
Becca Rast and Nick Martin are field directors for the Sanders campaign who, when they were in high school, founded a local branch of Students for a Democratic Society. This radical organization was cofounded by Bill Ayers, a Marxist terrorist who bombed the Pentagon in 1972 and befriended a young Barack Obama in 1995. Like Jurek, members of Ayers’s Weather Underground organization also thought conservatives needed to be killed or reeducated in prison camps. Federal Bureau of Investigation informant Larry Grathwohl infiltrated the Weather Underground and reported in 1982 that the organization estimated that it would have to kill 25 million people to establish communism in America.
Of course, people like Kyle Jurek and Bill Ayers represent the far-left fringe in American politics. Even though Jurek has stated that there are many more people like him working in the Sanders campaign, it is probably safe to assume that most Sanders supporters do not want to burn people alive in the streets and send the wealthy to prison camps.
Yet these so-called moderate Sanders supporters have not thought their ideology through to its logical conclusion. All told, Sanders’s socialist proposals would cost as much as $97.5 trillion over the next decade. That means total government spending would have to surge from 36 percent to 70 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.
Even if you saddled every upper-class American with an 80 percent marginal tax rate, you would still need to collect an additional $66,000 from every household in the nation to afford these socialist proposals. People will not submit to this type of wealth confiscation willingly. It is going to take brute force to implement Bernie Sanders’s vision for America.
Former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers wrote that a willingness to commit acts of violence is what separates Communists from their socialist fellow travelers. “Have you the moral strength to take upon yourself the crimes of history so the man at last may close his chronicle of age-old, senseless suffering and replace it with purpose and a plan?” he asked in his book Witness. “The answer a man makes to this question is the difference between a Communist and those miscellaneous socialist, liberals, fellow travelers, unclassified progressives and men of goodwill, all of whom share a similar vision, but do not share the faith because they will not take upon themselves the penalties of the faith.”
There are millions of Americans who want a government that will confiscate 70 percent of the wealth produced by private citizens for use in government social programs. But what do you do with those who disagree with this plan? Agent Grathwohl sat in a room with 25 people, most of whom have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and listened as they discussed the logistics of killing 25 million people. Kyle Jurek says there are many people in the Sanders campaign today who acknowledge the need for prison camps.
Many people think that an event as violent as the Bolshevik Revolution could never happen in America. Yet a sobering prophecy in Ezekiel 5:12 reveals that one third of the population of end-time Israel (the United States and Britain, primarily) will die from the pestilence, famine and violence that will result from civil war. That equals more than 100 million deaths from rioting and warfare in the U.S. (Request our free book Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet for proof.)
How could a dramatic prophecy like this be fulfilled? How could the most powerful and prosperous nation in human history fall into such a terrible fate as this?
One major reason Americans will clash with one another is over this issue of government control. By its very definition, big-government socialism is directly opposed to small-government constitutionalism. Socialism is based largely on atheism, and the American Constitution is based largely on the Bible.
Today, socialism is gathering strength. What people don’t understand about “democratic socialism” is that its aim of socialism in the U.S. is to overthrow its constitutional form of government—by violence if necessary.
Socialists usually downplay this, but the protests and riots occurring across America today are not really against President Donald Trump; they are against the constitutional system of government he leads. To learn more about how prophecies from Ezekiel and other biblical books apply to America, read “Communism in America Today,” by Gerald Flurry.


thetrumpet--2020-01-22--China-Myanmar Ties to Reshape Geopolitics of Indian Ocean Region

The flags of China and Myanmar waved side by side along the roads of Myanmar’s capital city over the weekend, as Chinese Paramount Leader Xi Jinping visited the Buddhist-majority nation to draw it more tightly into China’s orbit.
“Let us work hand in hand to build an even closer China-Myanmar community with a shared future and write a new chapter for our millennia-old ‘pauk-phaw’ friendship,” Xi wrote in Myanmar’s Myanma Alinn Daily on the eve of his trip, using a phrase meaning “fraternal” in the Burmese language.
With billboards, banners, fanfare and flags, the government of #Myanmar is welcoming #XiJinping , President of the People’s Republic of #China, for a 2-day state visit beginning #today ! pic.twitter.com/skoBphOVj0 — Tamer Yazar (@tameryazar) January 17, 2020
Xi’s “hand in hand” work with Myanmar’s leadership over the following two days resulted in the signing of 33 agreements that will accelerate construction of infrastructure projects related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. This is the project China brands as a 21st-century version of the ancient Silk Road, to facilitate trade across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. The most notable Myanmar-based bri projects are a railway running from China to Kyaukpyu on Myanmar’s west coast, and a full-scale operational deep-sea port there.
China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), involving a central road & rail transport infrastructure leading from Southern China’s Yunnan Province through Muse & Mandalay to Kyaukphyu in Myanmar’s Rakhine State where a major port & Special Economic Zone are planned. pic.twitter.com/R0yQhESnkS — BRISL (@BRI_SL) January 19, 2020
China’s plan to build bri-related projects in Myanmar has been in the works since 2009, but stalled in the mid-2010s after Myanmar began fearing that the ventures would give Beijing perilous levels of power over the country.
More recently, however, Myanmar’s government came under heavy international criticism for its 2017–2018 military operations against the nation’s Rohingya Muslim minority, which killed as many as 10,000 and drove more than 700,000 out of the country. When it seemed the whole world was against Myanmar for the genocidal campaign, China refused to condemn the move. This Chinese decision shielded Myanmar from punishment by the United Nations Security Council, prompting the nation to reconsider China’s bri projects. This opened the door for Xi’s landmark visit.
The railway from China to Kyaukpyu, Myanmar, is of immense strategic value to the Chinese because it will safeguard against one of China’s greatest fears: a potential United States naval blockade in the South China Sea. Without Kyaukpyu and the “back door” to the Indian Ocean that it will grant China, such a blockade would pose an existential threat to China. But now, this bri branch will give China an alternative route through which it can import the Middle Eastern energy that fuels its economy and export its finished goods to Europe and other regions.
The Diplomat noted the importance of this aspect of Xi’s visit, writing: “The handshakes with Xi in Naypyitaw [Myanmar’s capital] may not only impact the political economy of Myanmar for the upcoming decades but also herald the beginning of a new chapter for the geopolitical landscape of the Indian Ocean.”
The “new chapter” that China is opening with the Belt and Road Initiative, and the way it increasingly links Asia and Europe, is deeply significant in the context of Bible prophecy. Isaiah 23 discusses a vast trade bloc that will be formed in the modern day called a “mart of nations.” Leading the bloc will be a nation Isaiah refers to as Chittim, an ancient name for modern-day China. Also in a lead role will be Tyre, a city representing the commercial heart of modern Europe.
Isaiah 23 and Ezekiel 27 show that these two economic powers, along with Japan, Russia and others, will come to control global commerce for a brief time. Deuteronomy 28:52 makes plain that this trade partnership will operate to the detriment America and some of its allies.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains the prophetic significance of this economic “mart” in his free booklet Isaiah’s End-Time Vision:
The Bible contains many prophecies of that European power attacking America—and many other prophecies of America being besieged. That is where China and the giants of Asia enter the picture. When the [European power] attacks North America, there will be no help or sympathy from Asia.
Instead, it is evident that Asian powers, such as China, will assist the Europeans in carrying out the attack. “This is why Isaiah’s prophecy of an end-time ‘mart of nations’ that includes both European and Asian powers is so intriguing,” he writes. “And why the trend of collusion between these two great economic blocs is worth watching.”
In the near term, China’s deepening ties with Myanmar and other nations in the bri’s path point to a bleak future for America and its allies. But Bible prophecy goes on to say that after this economic siege and the fall of the U.S. and Britain, a new chapter will begin: the most hope-filled one in the annals of human history.
“[T]hat trading partnership won’t last long,” Mr. Flurry writes. “Soon they will clash, just before Jesus Christ returns and destroys both of them.”
Christ will return to Earth, bringing a decisive end to mankind’s self-destruction and ushering in an age of peace and prosperity for the peoples of China, Myanmar, the U.S. and all the world. “Thank God,” Mr. Flurry writes, “there is great news beyond the bad news.”
To learn more about these Bible prophecies, how they will affect your life, and the hope that is at their core, order your free copy of Isaiah’s End-Time Vision.


Walking With Destiny

God has promised to preserve King David ’ s throne for all eternity .
Where is this throne today and why does it matter ?
Why the Day of the Lord ?
The most terrifying time in world history has almost arrived .
What will God teach mankind during the great and dreadful Day of the Lord ?
Why the Great Falling Away God ’ s Church was spiritually wrecked three decades ago .
There is one specific reason why .
During His time on Earth , Jesus Christ established the one true Church .
But just over 100 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What happened to God ’ s Church during the ‘ lost century ’ ?
Christ ’ s Coming Is ‘ At the Very Door ’ Jesus Christ was the greatest prophet of all time .
While on Earth , He revealed six signs of His Second Coming .
To be protected in the dangerous days ahead , you need to be able to discern these signs !
The defection of Prince Harry from the British royal family has shocked the world .
Why has the monarchy struggled in recent years—and what is God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American politics are in a state of hysteria right now .
There is a deadly reason so many people are adopting insane ideas .

The late, great Winston Churchill knew he was walking with destiny. How can you walk with destiny every day of your life?
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the only real political watchman in this end time. As Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany during the 1930s, Churchill warned urgently. The British people and virtually the entire Western world ignored him. He was alone, rejected by even his own political party. It wasn’t until the end of the decade that everyone was finally forced to acknowledge how right Churchill had been all along.
As the only man who would respond appropriately to the German threat, Churchill was appointed prime minister in 1940. He led his nation in intense warfare, essentially alone, against Nazi Germany—until pacifist America was bombed into World War ii by Japan on Dec. 7, 1941.
What Churchill thought about himself at that time is stunning. He believed he was walking with destiny, “and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial” (Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm).
In his 2018 book Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts wrote:
When [Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie] King told Churchill [in 1943] that no one else could have saved the British Empire in 1940, [Churchill] replied that “he had had very exceptional training, having been through a previous war, and having had large experience in government.” … This idea was reiterated by the Conservative politician Lord Hailsham, who had been a junior minister in Churchill’s wartime government, when he said, “The one case in which I think I can see the finger of God in contemporary history is Churchill’s arrival at the premiership at that precise moment in 1940.”
Churchill always knew he was walking with destiny, and many others eventually came to believe the same.
Was Churchill really prepared by God to save the West from Nazi tyranny? Can this really be possible—even probable?
A Greater Walk With Destiny
Definitions for destiny include “to decree beforehand, set apart for a specific purpose,” and “a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency.”
Churchill didn’t know whether he fulfilled a biblical purpose. But we can know!
When God speaks in the Bible about walking with destiny, He is discussing not just the future, but also right now. He wants you to lead an adventurous, spectacular life in this present world and in the World Tomorrow. What if you could be destined to enjoy abundance, happiness, joy and protection from God? That is what He is offering!
No matter who you are, you can walk with God. This way of life is most exciting and challenging. It is far more important than anything ever was in Winston Churchill’s life—and he is credited with saving Western civilization! (Really, only God can do that, but He often uses humans to fulfill His purpose.)
Hitler the barbarian came alarmingly close to sending the world back into the Dark Ages. God used Churchill to prevent this and to save the West. Churchill fought and defeated Germany and the sixth head of the Holy Roman Empire. (The seventh and final resurrection of this church-state beast, plainly prophesied in your Bible, will likely occur in the next couple years.)
Churchill’s watchman warning forecast World War ii. Today, World War iii is coming! Churchill was able to help the West succeed in World War ii. But this time, Jesus Christ Himself will have to end the suffering before all life on the planet is exterminated (Matthew 24:21-22).
Clearly, Churchill’s life was earthshaking. But I guarantee you that your opportunity to walk with destiny right now would have been beyond Churchill’s ability to comprehend! His walk with destiny looks trivial by comparison to God’s master plan for man.
Two Types of Watchman
God reveals the meaning of terrifying end-time prophecies like this one: “Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman” (Ezekiel 33:1-2). Is it possible that God allowed the madman Hitler to “bring the sword upon a land”? This prophecy clearly applies to that World War ii period. At what other time in history have “the people of the land [taken] a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman”?
A watchman can be chosen by the people (verse 2) or by God (verse 7). The British people chose Churchill, although they only did so when it was almost too late.
God must teach our nations—particularly America, Britain and the Jewish nation—some hard lessons in this end time. (Request Herbert W. Armstrong’s free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy to learn about these nations’ special history with God—and how they have rejected their destiny.)
Before God brings punishment, He always gives warning. “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” (verse 11). God makes each of us choose! Turn and live! This is about the death of nations. God will save us physically and spiritually from that fate—if we will just let Him. There’s no need to suffer horribly before Christ’s return. Repent. Change. Turn things around now. Walk with destiny! Nations most likely won’t—but individuals can and are.
The British people used to talk more about the miracles of World War ii. Today, they are drifting further and further from God—a deadly direction.
Look at the responsibility God places on the shoulders of the watchman: “If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand” (verses 3-6). To Churchill, there was almost no choice—he had to warn! If not, the national suffering would have been his fault. Churchill wasn’t deeply religious, but he could feel the weight of his purpose.
Then verse 7 pivots to a different watchman: “So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.” This watchman is chosen by God. Where is this watchman today?
Sadly, the world won’t listen to God’s watchman until the severe punishment has already begun: “Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed. … And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them” (verses 29, 33).
The good news is, these verses indicate that anyone searching for the truth with an open mind can find it right now, escape punishment, and walk with God. God’s watchman is backed by a powerful, noticeable work, which is why a great multitude of repentant sinners will be able to compare his warning to unfolding events and emerge from the Great Tribulation early. God will immediately start working with them spiritually.
God wants you to walk with destiny, even today. Recognize God’s hand in history, and in events today. Heed the warning message He is sending out. Turn to Him, and allow Him to direct your life to fulfill His marvelous destiny for mankind!


thetrumpet--2020-01-21--Virginia Gun Laws and the Coming Civil War

The former Prince Harry gave his first public speech since leaving Britain ’ s royal family .
Democrats know they @ @ @ @ @ evidence to try their impeachment case in the Senate .
Now , they ’ re @ @ @ @ @ President Donald Trump .
This is the only strategy they have left—the never-ending investigation .
@ @ @ @ @ in Virginia , and they ’ re hurriedly using it to write new , unconstitutional @ @ @ @ @ .
Pro-Constitution demonstrators gathered at the state ’ s capitol yesterday to rally against the @ @ @ @ @ The left-wing media repeatedly referred to the protesters as white nationalists , and were eagerly @ @ @ @ @ to unfold .
In this segment , I talk about the prophesied civil war coming @ @ @ @ @ report highlighted the surging weapons sales—and not just purchases by individuals , but by nations @ @ @ @ @ that terrible times are ahead .
Where should you put your trust and confidence for @ @ @ @ @ Trumpet Daily Radio Show on Apple Podcasts , Google Play or by RSS

Virginia Gun Laws and the Coming Civil War
Megxit Update (3 minutes)
The former Prince Harry gave his first public speech since leaving Britain’s royal family.
Impeachment Day (8 minutes)
Democrats know they don’t have enough evidence to try their impeachment case in the Senate. Now, they’re calling for more investigations into President Donald Trump. This is the only strategy they have left—the never-ending investigation.
Virginia Gun Laws (25 minutes)
Democrats hold all the power in Virginia, and they’re hurriedly using it to write new, unconstitutional gun laws into the books. Pro-Constitution demonstrators gathered at the state’s capitol yesterday to rally against the new laws being proposed. The left-wing media repeatedly referred to the protesters as white nationalists, and were eagerly hoping for another Charlottesville-type tragedy to unfold. In this segment, I talk about the prophesied civil war coming to America.
Arms Race (12 minutes)
A recent report highlighted the surging weapons sales—and not just purchases by individuals, but by nations. Trends like this indicate that terrible times are ahead. Where should you put your trust and confidence for protection?
E-mails (4 minutes)


thetrumpet--2020-01-21--Europe: Ripe for Rising Demagogues

Europe: Ripe for Rising Demagogues

A tour of European nations shows democracy on its deathbed .
At first glance , Europe looks like one of democracy ’ s great success stories .
For most of its history , Europe has been dominated by empires .
Through the 19th century and after World War i , these were replaced by democracies .
These democracies began to fall in the 1930s .
They were almost wiped out in the ’ 40s .
But then democracy made a comeback .
After World War ii , Britain and America brought democracy to Western Europe .
The last hold-outs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the 1970s .
Just over a decade later , the Berlin Wall toppled and democracy conquered the rest of Europe .
Many countries once behind the Iron Curtain are now firmly in the club .
It ’ s democracy über alles .
But take a closer look and things don ’ t seem so great .
In fact , in country after country , democracy faces some grave problems .
In the last four years , Spain has held four inconclusive elections .
Opposing parties have managed to form unity coalitions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elections in April this year after yet another coalition collapsed .
No one managed to form a government , so in November they again held fresh elections .
As this magazine goes to press , the nation has still failed to form a government .
It is difficult to see how Spain can ever return to having a functioning democratic government .
It is divided between left and right , but with the added complication of separatism .
Regions like Catalonia have strong independence movements .
Some political parties want to clamp down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it best to allow the different regions considerable local autonomy .
Any faction will struggle to rally a majority .
The only clear victor in Spain is the far right—in the form of a party called Vox .
In the April election , Vox entered Spain ’ s parliament for the first time in the nation ’ s democratic history , with 10 percent of the vote .
In November , it catapulted into third place , winning 15 percent and more than doubling its number of seats in Spain ’ s congress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rally party has become one of the country ’ s most popular parties .
Having shed its old name ( the National Front ) to distance its association with anti-Semitism and the far right , it came in first place in France ’ s European Parliament elections .
In France ’ s presidential elections in 2017 , the National Rally leader , Marine Le Pen , came second in the opening stage of voting , and made it to the final round .
Ultimately , enough voters were put off by the party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ win .
Still , France is clearly unhappy .
In December the nation was engulfed in massive protests that cut off electricity and shut down schools , as masses of people demonstrated against unpopular pension changes .
The nation ’ s “ yellow vest ” movement has been making headlines for well over a year as hundreds of thousands vent their dissatisfaction with the government .
In 2010 and 2011 , Belgium set a new world record for the longest period any developed country has been without a government : 589 days .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ prize , It appears Belgium is unwilling to let it go .
The nation ’ s last elections were on May 26 , and as of this writing it still does not have a governing coalition .
Like Spain , it is divided both between left and right and between separatists and unionists .
The result is deadlock .
Dutch populist Thierry Baudet and his Forum for Democracy party stunned the Netherlands in the country ’ s most recent elections on March 14 .
His party—established in 2016—won more seats than any other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the greatest political upsets in Dutch political history.
” For established political parties , the entire March 20 election was an upset : Various Euroskeptic and Green parties made notable gains , weakening Prime Minister Mark Rutte ’ s hold on the upper house of the Dutch parliament .
Baudet has adopted some of the policies of the far right but rejected their more divisive language .
His rapid rise in popularity shows that the Dutch are keen on his new approach to politics .
The Germans fell short of Belgium ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elections , but they did set a personal best .
Their four months sorting out a government was the nation ’ s longest since World War ii .
The result is an unstable coalition that could collapse at any time .
The reason it took so long to form is that voters have abandoned both the mainstream right and mainstream left for more extreme parties .
In the most recent local elections , in Thuringia on October 27 , extreme parties gained most of the vote .
Die Linke ( the Left ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Communist regime—came in first place with 31 percent .
The Alternative für Deutschland , the new far-right party , came in second place , with 23.4 percent .
One of these two must be included in any coalition to have a majority in the state parliament .
The European Central Bank effectively forced then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi out of office in 2011 , replacing him with a government of experts .
In hindsight , it is clear this was not healthy for Italian democracy .
Two upstart parties won their last national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ votes was the Five Star Movement .
This was founded in 2009 by comedian Beppe Grillo .
It wants to oust the elites and introduce a new political system .
It has championed using online polls to make major decisions based on the will of its membership .
The other big winner was Lega ( the League ) .
Originally Lega Nord ( the Northern League ) , it was a fringe right-wing party campaigning for autonomy and even independence for northern Italy .
But for this election , it dropped the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-migrant policies—calling for mass deportations and so on .
Lega is now Italy ’ s largest right-wing party .
Its leader , Matteo Salvini , has consciously modeled himself on Italy ’ s former dictator Benito Mussolini .
These two surprising parties governed in coalition until this year .
But the Lega ’ s skyrocketing popularity led the party into a bid to break up the coalition and hold fresh elections .
It failed to hold those elections and is now out of office , but the coalition that took its place is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be back .
Sweden ’ s left-wing government embraced those migrating into Europe in 2015 .
It has since paid for that at the ballot box .
In 2018 , the Social Democrats , Sweden ’ s established center-left party , experienced its worst result since 1911 .
All the established parties did so badly in that election , it took four months for them to forge a coalition .
According to some polls , the Far-Right Sweden Democrats have become the nation ’ s most popular political party .
Meanwhile , residents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethnically diverse regions have to beware of improvised explosive devices if they move around their cities at night .
Eastern Europe is on a different path .
There , a number of political strongmen are enjoying robust mandates from their voters .
Some have called this “ illiberal democracy.
” With the left heavily influencing the judiciary , financial institutions and media in these countries , these strongmen have broken the traditional rules of Western politics and begun involving themselves in these institutions .
The left has used its control of these institutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opponents .
But the way the right is fighting back also has some worrying aspects .
It has created governments that “ not only keep a firm grip on the legislative and executive branches , ” says the Journal of Democracy , “ but also dominate virtually all spheres of social life , including commerce , education , the arts , churches , and even sports.
” Does this trend in Eastern Europe indicate the direction that those in Western Europe will take ?
It certainly looks like it .
In Austria , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his right-wing party by embracing the same kind of personality-driven , Christian-identity politics of the east .
Many in the west are paying attention .
It is clear that Europe ’ s democracy is far from healthy .
In fact , it is terminally sick .
Governments are ceasing to function .
Nation-threatening problems are not being solved .
And across Europe , people are worried .
Such an environment threatens to produce a frightening outcome .
“ Meet the Medieval German Warlord With a Message for Modern Politicians , ” writes The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ website .
The quip reads , “ In an age of uncertainty and upheaval , it pays to have strong leaders .
Perhaps Germany could draw from history for inspiration.
” The article argues that Germany needs a strong leader , someone like Henry the Lion , a medieval warlord who practiced military conquest and supported the Holy Roman Empire .
Such thinking is growing remarkably common .
Twenty-six percent of young adults in Eastern Germany and 23 percent in Western Germany want “ a strong leader who does not have to worry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ half “ totally disagree ” with this statement .
A University of Leipzig study concluded : “ Around 40 percent of Germans display authoritarian characteristics , while only 30 percent are explicitly democratic.
” This is exactly the trend that Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned about in his January 2019 cover article , “ Germany—A New King is Imminent.
” “ Germany today is crying out for a stronger leader , and the European Union wants stronger leadership and direction from Germany , ” he wrote .
“ There is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Germany .
People can ’ t agree on what his policies should be—but they want someone different from Merkel , and someone with vision.
” The Bible describes this imminent change in Europe .
Revelation 17 talks about 10 kings who will rule over Europe , all under one overall king .
“ This soon-coming ruler could literally be called a king , ” wrote Mr .
Flurry .
“ Even if he is not , the Bible gives him that title .
When the Bible talks about a king , in most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ democratic government .
Even if this man doesn ’ t have the title of ‘ king , ’ he will lead like an absolute monarch , like an authoritarian king right out of the Middle Ages.
” Bible prophecy shows that Europe is about to revert to the monarchy it has been familiar with for most of its history .
The conquest and expansion which also form that history will soon follow .

A tour of European nations shows democracy on its deathbed.
At first glance, Europe looks like one of democracy’s great success stories. For most of its history, Europe has been dominated by empires. Through the 19th century and after World War i, these were replaced by democracies.
These democracies began to fall in the 1930s. They were almost wiped out in the ’40s.
But then democracy made a comeback. After World War ii, Britain and America brought democracy to Western Europe. The last hold-outs, Spain and Portugal, transitioned to democracy in the 1970s. Just over a decade later, the Berlin Wall toppled and democracy conquered the rest of Europe. Many countries once behind the Iron Curtain are now firmly in the club. It’s democracy über alles.
But take a closer look and things don’t seem so great. In fact, in country after country, democracy faces some grave problems.
Spain
In the last four years, Spain has held four inconclusive elections. Opposing parties have managed to form unity coalitions, but none has lasted.
Spain held elections in April this year after yet another coalition collapsed. No one managed to form a government, so in November they again held fresh elections. As this magazine goes to press, the nation has still failed to form a government.
It is difficult to see how Spain can ever return to having a functioning democratic government. It is divided between left and right, but with the added complication of separatism. Regions like Catalonia have strong independence movements. Some political parties want to clamp down hard on any separatism; others believe it best to allow the different regions considerable local autonomy. Any faction will struggle to rally a majority.
The only clear victor in Spain is the far right—in the form of a party called Vox. In the April election, Vox entered Spain’s parliament for the first time in the nation’s democratic history, with 10 percent of the vote. In November, it catapulted into third place, winning 15 percent and more than doubling its number of seats in Spain’s congress.
France
In France, the extremist National Rally party has become one of the country’s most popular parties. Having shed its old name (the National Front) to distance its association with anti-Semitism and the far right, it came in first place in France’s European Parliament elections. In France’s presidential elections in 2017, the National Rally leader, Marine Le Pen, came second in the opening stage of voting, and made it to the final round. Ultimately, enough voters were put off by the party’s extremism that it did not win.
Still, France is clearly unhappy. In December the nation was engulfed in massive protests that cut off electricity and shut down schools, as masses of people demonstrated against unpopular pension changes. The nation’s “yellow vest” movement has been making headlines for well over a year as hundreds of thousands vent their dissatisfaction with the government.
Belgium
In 2010 and 2011, Belgium set a new world record for the longest period any developed country has been without a government: 589 days.
If Spain is vying to take this prize, It appears Belgium is unwilling to let it go. The nation’s last elections were on May 26, and as of this writing it still does not have a governing coalition. Like Spain, it is divided both between left and right and between separatists and unionists. The result is deadlock.
The Netherlands
Dutch populist Thierry Baudet and his Forum for Democracy party stunned the Netherlands in the country’s most recent elections on March 14. His party—established in 2016—won more seats than any other. Foreign Policy called “one of the greatest political upsets in Dutch political history.”
For established political parties, the entire March 20 election was an upset: Various Euroskeptic and Green parties made notable gains, weakening Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s hold on the upper house of the Dutch parliament.
Baudet has adopted some of the policies of the far right but rejected their more divisive language. His rapid rise in popularity shows that the Dutch are keen on his new approach to politics.
Germany
The Germans fell short of Belgium’s record for coalition negotiations after the last elections, but they did set a personal best. Their four months sorting out a government was the nation’s longest since World War ii.
The result is an unstable coalition that could collapse at any time. The reason it took so long to form is that voters have abandoned both the mainstream right and mainstream left for more extreme parties. In the most recent local elections, in Thuringia on October 27, extreme parties gained most of the vote. Die Linke (the Left)—successor of East Germany’s brutal Communist regime—came in first place with 31 percent. The Alternative für Deutschland, the new far-right party, came in second place, with 23.4 percent. One of these two must be included in any coalition to have a majority in the state parliament.
Italy
The European Central Bank effectively forced then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi out of office in 2011, replacing him with a government of experts. In hindsight, it is clear this was not healthy for Italian democracy. Two upstart parties won their last national elections.
The party receiving the most votes was the Five Star Movement. This was founded in 2009 by comedian Beppe Grillo. It wants to oust the elites and introduce a new political system. It has championed using online polls to make major decisions based on the will of its membership.
The other big winner was Lega (the League). Originally Lega Nord (the Northern League), it was a fringe right-wing party campaigning for autonomy and even independence for northern Italy. But for this election, it dropped the “Northern” and campaigned for anti-EU, anti-migrant policies—calling for mass deportations and so on. Lega is now Italy’s largest right-wing party. Its leader, Matteo Salvini, has consciously modeled himself on Italy’s former dictator Benito Mussolini.
These two surprising parties governed in coalition until this year. But the Lega’s skyrocketing popularity led the party into a bid to break up the coalition and hold fresh elections. It failed to hold those elections and is now out of office, but the coalition that took its place is unstable, and the party could soon be back.
Sweden
Sweden’s left-wing government embraced those migrating into Europe in 2015. It has since paid for that at the ballot box. In 2018, the Social Democrats, Sweden’s established center-left party, experienced its worst result since 1911. All the established parties did so badly in that election, it took four months for them to forge a coalition.
According to some polls, the Far-Right Sweden Democrats have become the nation’s most popular political party. Meanwhile, residents in some of Sweden’s more ethnically diverse regions have to beware of improvised explosive devices if they move around their cities at night.
Central and Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is on a different path. There, a number of political strongmen are enjoying robust mandates from their voters. Some have called this “illiberal democracy.” With the left heavily influencing the judiciary, financial institutions and media in these countries, these strongmen have broken the traditional rules of Western politics and begun involving themselves in these institutions.
The left has used its control of these institutions to wage guerrilla warfare on its political opponents. But the way the right is fighting back also has some worrying aspects. It has created governments that “not only keep a firm grip on the legislative and executive branches,” says the Journal of Democracy, “but also dominate virtually all spheres of social life, including commerce, education, the arts, churches, and even sports.”
Does this trend in Eastern Europe indicate the direction that those in Western Europe will take? It certainly looks like it. In Austria, Sebastian Kurtz has reversed the decline of his right-wing party by embracing the same kind of personality-driven, Christian-identity politics of the east. Many in the west are paying attention.
Wanted: A Strong Leader!
It is clear that Europe’s democracy is far from healthy. In fact, it is terminally sick. Governments are ceasing to function. Nation-threatening problems are not being solved. And across Europe, people are worried.
Such an environment threatens to produce a frightening outcome.
“Meet the Medieval German Warlord With a Message for Modern Politicians,” writes The Local De, a German-focused, English-language website. The quip reads, “In an age of uncertainty and upheaval, it pays to have strong leaders. Perhaps Germany could draw from history for inspiration.” The article argues that Germany needs a strong leader, someone like Henry the Lion, a medieval warlord who practiced military conquest and supported the Holy Roman Empire.
Such thinking is growing remarkably common. Twenty-six percent of young adults in Eastern Germany and 23 percent in Western Germany want “a strong leader who does not have to worry about parliaments and elections.” Fewer than half “totally disagree” with this statement.
A University of Leipzig study concluded: “Around 40 percent of Germans display authoritarian characteristics, while only 30 percent are explicitly democratic.”
This is exactly the trend that Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry warned about in his January 2019 cover article, “Germany—A New King is Imminent.” “Germany today is crying out for a stronger leader, and the European Union wants stronger leadership and direction from Germany,” he wrote. “There is a strong demand for a new leader in Germany. People can’t agree on what his policies should be—but they want someone different from Merkel, and someone with vision.”
The Bible describes this imminent change in Europe. Revelation 17 talks about 10 kings who will rule over Europe, all under one overall king.
“This soon-coming ruler could literally be called a king,” wrote Mr. Flurry. “Even if he is not, the Bible gives him that title. When the Bible talks about a king, in most cases it is not referring to a democratic government. Even if this man doesn’t have the title of ‘king,’ he will lead like an absolute monarch, like an authoritarian king right out of the Middle Ages.”
Bible prophecy shows that Europe is about to revert to the monarchy it has been familiar with for most of its history. The conquest and expansion which also form that history will soon follow.


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Demonstrators set off along Park Lane at the start of the 2019 anti-racism march in London , England , on March 16 , 2019 .
British tv personalities are talking a lot about race at the moment .
“ Experts ” in race and gender studies have flooded onto the airways to explain that Harry and Meghan ’ s decision to step back from royal duties is a reaction to society ’ s racism .
Good Morning Britain , This Morning , Newsnight , Question Time and many more have all hosted discussions on Britain ’ s intrinsic racism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ part black Duchess of Sussex .
This feels like a real turning point in race relations in Britain .
I ’ ve never seen so much mainstream coverage of the idea that the country and its institutions are fundamentally racist .
If a tv host asks for evidence of racism , he is immediately shot down .
If a black person states there is racism , you must take his or her word for it .
If you ask for proof , you ’ re questioning the life experiences of a black person @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s a ridiculous view .
Calling a whole society racist is a huge claim .
As astronomer Carl Sagan—a figure usually revered by the left—put it , “ Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
” But with the new standard , there is no defense against an accusation of racism .
Deny it or ask for proof , and you merely confirm it .
At the same time , last week we were given a vivid demonstration of the very real harm caused by false accusations of racism .
All across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been raped and some killed .
Authorities have allowed it to continue for fear of false accusations of racism .
On Tuesday , Manchester police published a report about gang members “ grooming ” —i.e .
raping , sexually abusing and prostituting—teenage girls .
Around 100 men targeted at least 60 girls in Manchester in the early 2000s .
The report found that children were being exploited “ in plain sight ” and that there was “ clear evidence ” the girls were abused “ generally by a group of older Asian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” the report means mostly Pakistani , Muslim men .
The report said the police knew who was committing the abuse .
They had their names , their addresses , where they worked .
They knew what was happening .
But they did nothing .
One girl , Victoria Agoglia , was being looked after by the local council after her mother died .
She told authorities about how she was being raped and assaulted .
No one did anything to protect her .
In September 2003 , she went to the home @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with heroin , and died five days later in the hospital .
Maggie Oliver was a detective who resigned over the scandal and exposed a lot of what was happening .
She said that “ people at the top of the police and at the social services … knew the facts and chose to bury the truth.
” Why did they allow this to go on ?
One detective quoted in the report said : “ What had a massive input was , the offending target group were predominantly Asian males , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other ethnicities.
” The report said the police were “ aware of sensitive community issues.
” It added , “ Concerns were expressed about the risk of proactive tactics or the incitement of racial hatred.
” This is just the latest in many investigations telling the same story .
Up and down the country , in city after city , teenage girls have been raped and abused .
And police have been reluctant to do anything because of fear of being called racist .
The results have been horrific .
A major investigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , written by Prof. Alexis Jay , found that between 1997 and 2013 , about 1,400 minors were sexually exploited—and that ’ s a “ conservative estimate.
” “ It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered , ” the report stated .
Even in the dry , factual language of an official report , it is difficult reading .
The children “ were raped by multiple perpetrators , trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England , abducted , beaten and intimidated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight , threatened with guns , made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone .
Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators .
This abuse is not confined to the past but continues to this day.
” “ One young person told us that ‘ gang rape ’ was a usual part of growing up in the area of Rotherham in which she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ The impact sexual exploitation had on them was absolutely devastating , ” it read .
“ Many children repeatedly self-harmed , and some became suicidal .
They suffered family breakdown , and some became homeless .
Several years after they had been abused , a disproportionate number were victims of domestic violence , had developed long-standing drug and alcohol addiction , and had parenting difficulties with their own children.
” “ Many suffered post-traumatic stress and endured lasting psychological and emotional damage that diminished their capacity to lead normal lives , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ sexual exploitation is like a circle that you can never escape from.
” Even the report ’ s author , who has investigated these kinds of atrocities before , was “ shocked ” at “ the horrible nature of the sexual acts ” and the “ utter brutality ” that she uncovered .
“ It was truly frightening that people in our country could be doing that , ” she said .
The police just let this go on because , in the words of Rotherham ’ s member of Parliament @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a culture of not want [ sic ] to rock the multicultural community boat.
” The report stated , “ Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist ; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.
” Another report acknowledged that “ not enough was done ” by police to stop the gangs , and that “ misplaced ‘ political correctness ’ ” slowed down their response .
This is where throwing around accusations of “ racism ” leads @ @ @ @ @ @ @ press coverage of the Duchess of Sussex is racist .
But for the race-baiters , you don ’ t need evidence .
They can divine the motive behind any negative coverage , and it must be racism .
You can easily see how they would have applied the same logic to Manchester .
Had they dealt with this problem , they would have arrested a disproportionate number of Pakistani Muslim men for rape and sexual assault .
They probably would have been branded racist for doing so .
That shouldn ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But those throwing around “ racist ” accusations share part of the blame for the girls ’ fate .
Hundreds , if not thousands , have suffered because of their “ woke ” approach to race .
The whole story shows our weird , upside-down priorities as a nation .
The report into authorities tolerating rape in Manchester has received a tiny fraction of the coverage Meghan ’ s supposedly racist treatment has .
As Brendan O ’ Neill wrote last week : “ Think about this : We live in a time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complaint about overhearing a sexist joke or having a hand briefly placed on her knee becomes a huge scandal and can even dominate news coverage , and yet a vulnerable working-class girl can experience horrendous genuine abuse ” and nobody talks about it , and authorities do little .
Part of the reason no one will talk about this , is that they ’ ll be called “ racist ” if they bring it up .
Never mind that the facts of the matter have been established in government reports and been the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some excellent , thorough investigative reporting by the Times newspaper .
The facts of the matter are not in dispute .
Yet if any politician tries to address the issue , the type of people that we ’ ve seen on tv this past week pop up and make them a “ racist ” pariah .
Is this about to get worse ?
Maybe—though there has been so much pushback against the criticism on tv that perhaps we ’ re in for a short-term resurgence of common sense .
Regardless , the repeated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a symptom of our sick society .
This is why we really need to talk about racism .
This whole sorry saga exposes major problems in society .
And it helps point to the real solution .
“ [ T ] he whole head is sick , and the whole heart faint ” —that is God ’ s description of today ’ s society .
“ From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds , and bruises , and putrifying sores @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neither bound up , neither mollified with ointment ” ( Isaiah 1:5-6 ) .
Britain has completely failed to protect some of its most vulnerable children .
Can we describe that any other way than putrefyingly sick ?
The criminals who committed these crimes are sick .
But so are the authorities who covered it up and looked the other way , as well as the media and public officials who will organize a lynch mob over an insensitive tweet but show no anger over the mistreatment of thousands of girls .
Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lot to warn about the nations God is raising up to punish Britain and America .
Accounts like the Manchester police report show us why our nations need to be punished .
In the same chapter , God warns : “ Your princes are rebellious , And companions of thieves ; Everyone loves bribes , And follows after rewards .
They do not defend the fatherless … ” ( verse 23 ; New King James Version ) .
Many , if not most , of the girls that are victims of these attacks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a third of the victims were in social care—being looked after by the state because their parents were dead or incapable of looking after them .
What an accurate condemnation of society today .
We care more about looking “ woke ” and progressive on social media than we do about protecting orphans from sexual predators .
Why this sick society ?
Verse 3 states : “ The ox knows its owner , and the ass its master ’ s crib ; but Israel does not know , my people does not understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is the root of the problem : We don ’ t know God .
In fact , we reject God ; we “ revolt more and more ” ( verse 5 ) .
As a society , we loudly revolt against God ’ s standards of morality and , instead , uphold our own .
Our current standards make calling someone by the wrong gender a more shocking crime than rape .
The further we drift from God , the more absurd our own standards become .
The real , permanent solution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to God .
That ’ s the solution for individuals too .
As society continues to move away from God , you can fix problems in your life by turning to Him .
To learn more about how you can solve the problems in your life and how you can play a part in God ’ s plan to heal this sick society , watch our video “ What Should You Do Now ?
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Britain, France and Germany triggered the Iran nuclear deal Dispute Resolution Mechanism on January 14 expressing its concern over Iran’s failure to comply to the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (jcpoa). However, the three nations also reaffirmed their commitment to the nuclear deal and said they were not joining the United States’ maximum pressure campaign.
On January 5, Iran announced it would no longer abide by the restrictions of the nuclear deal. It had already broken several terms of the agreement, so the declaration was more of a political statement.
The joint statement by Britain, France and Germany said, “We have therefore been left with no choice, given Iran’s actions, but to register today our concerns that Iran is not meeting its commitments under the jcpoa and to refer this matter to the Joint Commission under the Dispute Resolution Mechanism, as set out in paragraph 36 of the jcpoa.”
It is vital #Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon. Today, the UK, France and Germany have initiated the dispute resolution mechanism in response to Iran breaking its commitments in the JCPOA nuclear deal. We want to bring Iran back into full compliance and preserve the deal. https://t.co/ptaqGXVerH — Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) January 14, 2020
So what does this mean?
When the jcpoa was initially signed in 2015 by China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States (which withdrew in May 2018), the framework for the agreement included a process called the Dispute Resolution Mechanism.
In the situation that one party believes another is not upholding the terms of the agreement, the Dispute Resolution Mechanism is activated and the issue is first referred to the Joint Commission, comprised of the jcpoa signatory members. Unless it agrees by consensus to extend the period of time, the Joint Commission has 15 days to resolve the dispute or it is referred to the foreign ministries of signatory parties. From there, it could further be referred to an advisory board and eventually the United Nations Security Council. In the Security Council, the resolution would require nine votes in favor and no vetoes against in order to pass.
The whole process could take up to 65 days, unless extended by consensus. If no solution is reached by the end of the process, sanctions from all UN resolutions previous to the jcpoa would be reimposed on Iran.
This is a lengthy and complicated system, and reaching an agreement will likely be a difficult task. And at the end of the day, Russia or China will probably veto any serious sanctions. So in a way, Europe’s latest decision is meaningless. Even if it goes nowhere, however, for the first time, Europe is actually holding Iran accountable for its actions.
Though small, this first step is a prelude to a much larger military confrontation.
Tension between Europe and Iran have been on the rise for years now. On Dec. 8, 2018, the EU placed its first economic sanctions on Iran since the signing of the jcpoa in response to a terrorist attack in Europe; it suspected Iran was behind the assassination. The follow-up meeting the next month to solve the dispute resulted in the Iranian officials slamming the door on the European delegation. If that meeting was any indication of how Europe and Iran settle disputes, it’s unlikely this dispute will end much differently.
Recently, Europe has been strengthening its resolve against Iran. On Nov. 26, 2019, France announced its intention to lead a European maritime mission in the Persian Gulf to protect its trading vessels from Iranian sabotage. Belgium, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden have since joined the French-led initiative. On Dec. 3, 2019, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom sent a letter to the UN urging Iran to halt its ballistic missile development. And now it has triggered the dispute mechanism.
Keeping the jcpoa in place is beneficial for Iran. On January 14, Middle East expert Seth Franzman from the Jerusalem Post wrote, “[Iran] needs Europe in the Iran deal …. This deal gave the Islamic Republic largely what it wanted …. All Iran had to do was wait and push its success in the Middle East.” Franzman predicts that “Tehran won’t want to climb down or surrender what it thinks are its ‘rights’ to leave key parts of the deal. This sets up Tehran to receive ‘snap back’ sanctions.”
This time, however, Iran may have pushed its luck too far.
On January 15, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani retaliated against Europe’s call for the dispute mechanism, “Today, the American soldier is in danger, tomorrow the European soldier could be in danger. … We want you to leave this region.”
All this is leading to a spectacular clash between Europe and Iran.
Daniel 11:40 says, “And at the time of the end shall the king of the south [radical Islamic extremism, led by Iran] push at him: and the king of the north [a German-led European Union] 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.”
This prophecy in Daniel 11:40-43 says that as a result of Iran’s push, Europe will respond in a military whirlwind attack. This massive operation will overflow and storm through Libya, Ethiopia, Egypt, Iraq and Iran.
Many European leaders are becoming “gravely concerned” over Iran’s belligerence in the Middle East. Iran used to be a non-issue for Europe, but now that its missiles can reach the Continent, and it is attacking major oil facilities and breaking the terms of the jcpoa, Europe feels threatened. Some experts suggest that Iran could be as little as five to seven months away from developing a nuclear bomb. Europe is showing small signs that it may finally be waking up to the reality of the situation. This could be the small beginnings of a turnaround in Europe’s stance on Iran.
Iran is pushing at Europe. It is only a matter of time until Iran’s aggressive behavior becomes reckless and, in turn, incites the retaliation of a European military whirlwind.
For more information, please read “How Iran Will Be Conquered,” by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry.