Cost of Living for Americans Is About to Rise

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Cost of Living for Americans Is About to Rise

Making America great again will require some big short-term sacrifices.

By Andrew Miiller • April 7, 2025

The United States stock market has lost $9.6 trillion since President Donald Trump took the oath of office as investors fret about the effects of his revolutionary tariff plan. On April 2—a date the president proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hikes in nearly a century. Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act as his justification, President Trump slapped a 10 percent tariff on imports from all foreign countries and higher rates on particular economies taking advantage of the United States, including China and the European Union.

Some investors are considering the possibility that President Trump may postpone implementing his controversial tariff plan after the stock market tanked. But if all of President Trump’s proposed tariffs do take effect, the effective U.S. tariff rate will rise to 22.5 percent, the highest since President Theodore Roosevelt.

The Budget Lab at Yale, a nonpartisan policy research center that provides in-depth analysis of federal policy proposals for the U.S. economy, estimates that all the tariffs President Trump has proposed so far would raise prices by 2.3 percent, an average per household consumer loss of roughly $3,800 per year.

Republican lawmakers are working to extend President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts in order to help Americans better afford tariff hikes. If these tax cuts expire, however, the average American family can expect to pay $1,000 more in annual income taxes in addition to $3,800 more in tariff levies. This means the average family should probably budget $400 per month more in various taxes than they spent last year—a considerable sum.

“I don’t want anything to go down but, sometimes, you have to take medicine to fix something,” Trump told reporters asking about the market. “We have been treated so badly by other countries because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen. They took our businesses; they took our money; they took our jobs.”

The problem that President Trump is prescribing strong medicine to fix is the U.S. trade deficit. The last time America sold more goods to other countries than it bought was 1975. In the 50 years since, America has become so addicted to cheap foreign goods that it now imports an astounding $1.1 trillion more than it exports.

“We allowed ourselves to be transformed from a cast iron economy that made things into a largely paper economy that depends on the good graces of foreign nations for its survival,” wrote Sean Davis at the Federalist. “This is a recipe for civilizational suicide. We don’t make our own weapons, food, machines, vehicles, plastics, medicines, or computers. The whole covid insanity, with its shutdowns and shortages and supply-chain chaos, was a blaring alarm warning us that the economy we thought was so strong was shockingly fragile.”

Alongside the national debt, the trade deficit is perhaps America’s biggest domestic national security crisis. President Trump is taking bold action to solve both problems. He is working with Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to balance the budget and cancel out America’s $1.8 trillion budget deficit. Yet since the U.S. government’s total discretionary budget is $1.8 trillion, it is highly unlikely that Trump and Musk will be able to balance the budget with spending cuts alone. Without major cuts to Medicare and Social Security, the government will have to increase taxes. And the only type of tax that helps fix a trade deficit is a tariff.

By charging the average American family $3,800 per year in tariff levies, President Trump’s tariff proposals would raise $3.1 trillion in additional revenue over the next decade. This revenue should drop the budget deficit from $1.8 trillion per year to $1.5 trillion per year while simultaneously incentivizing American citizens to buy goods produced in their own country instead of sending their hard-earned money to the Chinese Communist Party.

The catch is that the average American family will have to reduce its standard of living by about $3,800 to $4,800 per year to make their country more self-sufficient, better able to survive without foreign goods and deficit spending. When financial advisers like Dave Ramsey help heavily indebted people achieve financial independence, they usually prescribe two to three years of severe financial austerity. This is basically what President Trump is prescribing to Americans. It may take a few years for America to rebuild its industry and balance its budget. The responsible thing to do until then is to raise taxes on foreign imports.

In many ways, President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement is a test of America’s character. Will Americans keep running up their national debt to buy cheap merchandise from nations that hate them? Or will they make the sacrifices necessary to balance their budget and rebuild their industrial base?

Regarding finances, Dave Ramsey teaches: “Almost all long-term thinking has short-term pain. Almost all short-term thinking has long-term pain and short-term relief.” Americans can either suffer a little bit now to create a nation capable of withstanding a future, prophesied trade war. Or they can take the easy way out now, only to suffer later.

In 1980, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote an article titled “Prepare to Greatly Reduce Your Standard of Living.” It warned that inflation and other economic woes were about to greatly reduce Americans’ purchasing power in the next year or two. Mr. Armstrong was right. The Crisis of 1982 was the worst downturn in the U.S. since the Great Depression. Then the 2008 recession surpassed it. Millions of people had to reduce their standard of living. But most forgot about Mr. Armstrong’s warning after President Ronald Reagan stabilized the nation’s economy. But the Crisis of 1982 was not the ultimate fulfillment of the prophecies Mr. Armstrong referred to in his article.

Mr. Armstrong explained that God had blessed America with the world’s highest per capita income because of a promise He had made to the patriarch Abraham. He warned that God would take away America’s blessing if it rebelled against Him.

As recently as 1950, two fifths of U.S. households did not own an automobile, one third did not own a television, and only a small minority of families enjoyed luxuries like air conditioning or a water heater. Yet those households were able to make it on one income and avoid consumer debt because they were less entitled than Americans today and did not buy things they could not afford. What they called “middle class” in the 1950s is now called “poverty.” Unless Americans start making some short-term sacrifices now, they will likely become acquainted with their great-grandparents’ standard of living before America’s economic collapse has run its course. You cannot run up both consumer and government debt for decades without consequences.

The fact is, the U.S. has been living beyond its means for decades and is now entering a period referred to as “Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7). God has raised up President Trump to give the American people a chance to repent and turn their nation around. Yet true repentance means change. We have to change our approach to finance if we want to avoid bankruptcy and foreign enslavement.

The Bible tells us that debt is a form of slavery (Proverbs 22:7) and advises us to deliver ourselves from debt “as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler” (Proverb 6:5). This requires individual sacrifice.

Now is the time to put your financial house in order. If you have delayed taking the painful but necessary steps to do this, there is still a small window of opportunity. You can begin right away by reading Solve Your Money Troubles! and The Financial Law You Can’t Afford to Ignore.

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Donald Trump Is Uniting the World Against Him

Donald Trump Is Uniting the World Against Him

By Richard Palmer • April 2, 2025

It’s tariff day. The entire world held its breath to see exactly what taxes United States President Donald Trump would place on goods made around the world.

He announced today that countries will face a range of tariffs, from 10 to 40 percent. The United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore and Brazil get off lightly, with just a 10 percent tariff. The European Union faces tariffs of 20 percent. Details are still being released, but this would presumably come on top of the tariffs already announced, such as the 25 percent tariff on vehicles.

Japan faces tariffs of 24 percent; South Korea, 25 percent; and China, 34 percent. Canada didn’t appear on President Trump’s chart.

While these nations haven’t yet had time to react, they were transforming the planet even before the tariffs were announced.

Just last summer, Japan sailed a destroyer into China’s waters. China responded by sending fighter jets into Japan’s airspace—for the first time in history.

These two nations have decades of bad blood. Japan killed 15 million Chinese in World War ii, many in brutal massacres. Japanese leaders still deny their war crimes, their textbooks glorify those who carried them out, and they’ve refused China’s requests for an official apology from Japan’s emperor. The two both claim the Senkaku Islands. China wants to conquer Taiwan. Japan wants to keep it independent. Japan has often spoken out against China’s human rights abuses and persecution of the Uyghurs. It has led to diplomatic spats, trade sanctions and military threats.

For last decade, around 90 percent of Japan’s inhabitants have told pollsters they have a poor opinion of China. Last year the proportion of Chinese with a poor opinion of Japan shot to the same level.

South Korea has problems with both. It too was brutalized by Japan during World War ii and has received little in the way of apology. And it too has argued with China over parts of the sea, with Chinese ships turning South Korean ships away from what Korea regards as parts of its own territory. It shares Japan’s concerns about Chinese ambitions in Taiwan and human rights abuses.

Getting these three countries to work together, deepen ties, and make symbolic gestures of friendship is a major feat. And it is happening thanks to one man: Donald Trump.

In the face of President Trump’s tariffs, Japan, China and South Korea have been working on their own free trade agreement and deepening the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, a trade agreement the three already participate in along with Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines and many others. Their three trade ministers met on March 30, just over a week after their foreign ministers met for the first time since 2023.

“It is one of the most striking economic defeats suffered by America that I have witnessed in more than 40 years covering international affairs,” wrote the Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

“For all intents and purposes, the U.S. is now a rogue nation when it comes to trade,” said the University of Sussex’s Michael Gasiorek. “I don’t think there is a global trade war going on. The U.S. is fighting a trade war with everybody, but the others are keen to cooperate even more.”

The EU has also pledged closer global ties in response. “Europe already has trade agreements in place with 76 countries,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen yesterday. “And we are now growing this network. We just concluded trade deals with mercosur, Mexico and Switzerland. We launched the first-ever Clean Trade and Investment Partnership with South Africa.”

China has reached out to Europe, raising the prospect of this Asian trade bloc joining with Europe and its African and Latin American allies to form a giant conglomerate excluding the U.S. “China is willing to work with the EU to handle economic differences in the proper manner,” said He Lifeng, China’s vice premier. Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping has invited the heads of Mercedes and bmw to meet with him. And EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič visited Beijing, China, on March 27–28 to try to settle the trade disputes between the two power blocs to present a more united front to President Trump.

Perhaps it overdramatizes things to place all of this on the head of Mr. Trump. After all, many of these countries have had tariffs on U.S. goods for decades—while the U.S. had much lower tariff boundaries. It’s understandable that President Trump wants to right that imbalance. It may be more accurate to say he is exposing a global jealousy toward the United States that was there all along. But he is accelerating the unification of these enemies.

This unification is the subject of a powerful prophetic warning. Almost all today reject Bible prophecy—but its warnings to America match exactly what is building right now. Isaiah 23 describes a maritime alliance called the “mart of nations” between “Chittim” (China), “Tyre” (the economic power rising in Europe), “Tarshish” (Japan) and others. This alliance is coming together now.

Our article “Trade Wars Are Here” explains this and other prophecies, and shows how they will quickly affect your world. As that article warns: “President Trump’s focus on sea gates reflects a stronger will and clearer view of the danger in the world. But that is not enough to save America. The nations are preparing for trade war on a level Americans cannot conceive of. If Americans repent now, God can once again bless the nation with protection. If not, God will use the suffering that results to get through to America and all mankind.”

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Canada Aims to Inflict as Much Pain as Possible on Americans - Trumpet Daily | Mar. 28, 2025

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[00:30] U.S.-Canada Trade War (22 minutes)
Canada and the United States are in full-fledged trade war. However, President Donald Trump’s battle is not with Canadians in general but with the nation’s radical-left leadership, which has declared it wants to inflict as much pain as possible on the U.S. because of tariffs.

[22:30] WorldWatch (4 minutes)

[26:15] The Most Transparent Government Agency (29 minutes)
Fox News host Bret Baier interviewed Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team regarding DOGE’s attempts to keep the U.S. from going bankrupt.

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Europe Cultivates a Climate of Crisis

Europe Cultivates a Climate of Crisis

By Richard Palmer • March 27, 2025

All European Union residents should stock three days’ worth of emergency supplies, the EU urged its citizens yesterday. Have at least six liters of water per person, tinned food, a flashlight, a radio with batteries and a printed emergency plan, it advised.

The warning comes a week after French media reported the government was planning to mail a 20-page survival booklet to every home before the summer. It will give emergency phone numbers and radio channels, advice on dealing with a nuclear attack, and details on how to sign up for reserve units or local firefighting groups. It will also advise citizens to put together a similar three-day survival pack.

Why the sudden interest in disaster response in Europe?

It is tied to Europe’s efforts to rearm.

Europe wants to embark on a massive military spending spree. But only Germany with its low debt can do so easily. Everyone else is close to maxing out their credit cards.

The only way to substantially boost that spending is to make painful cutbacks, such as fewer unemployment benefits, higher pension ages or less health-care spending.

In France in particular, this debate is toxic. The public likes the sound of a more muscular European military. But it doesn’t want to suffer to pay for it.

European leaders need to cultivate a climate of crisis. This new push toward survivalism helps spread the message that nuclear war is a real danger.

Pointing this out is not saying there is no danger. But without the nudge, Europe’s citizens don’t feel they are in enough danger to make large sacrifices for a military.

Eastern Europe does. It is closer to Russia. Lithuania sent out survival manuals in 2016. Latvia published one five years ago and updated it a year ago. Poland published one in 2022. Denmark sent one out digitally last summer. Finland and Sweden sent them out last November. All of these countries have dramatically increased their defense spending; Poland’s has roughly doubled since 2022.

But the French don’t really fear Russian troops marching down the streets of Paris. If the Russians failed to take Kyiv, Ukraine, in three years, they are not going 1,000 miles further west anytime soon.

Europe genuinely fears Russia and fears facing the world without the United States defending it. But there is clearly something more going on: EU leaders want to encourage a sense of crisis to get the military they want. European remilitarization isn’t driven only by fear. Some are creating an opportunity to do what they’ve wanted to do for years.

In 1978, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote: “Europeans want their own united military power! They know that a political union of Europe would produce a third major world power, as strong as either the United States or the ussr—possibly stronger!”

In that same article, he discussed Europe’s fear of Russia, but he warned, “The United States is not loved in Europe.” Europe wants this military power so it no longer has to play second fiddle to the U.S.

Mr. Armstrong forecast this decades ago because it is prophesied in your Bible. Now Europe is making it happen and the U.S. is cheering it on. Europe has benefited from decades of U.S. taxpayers footing its defense bill. But those in Europe pushing for rearmament aren’t doing it because they want to be good U.S. allies. They resent America.

You need to understand the biblical warning. This European power will catch far too many people unawares.

This rearmament has hit some major obstacles already: Some say it has run out of steam as indebted nations struggle to raise cash for more arms. But Bible prophecy also shows that the rise of a new Holy Roman Empire will not be an easy process. It will happen quickly and suddenly. But what emerges is a 10-nation superpower led by a strongman—not a 27-nation economic union led by three different presidencies and a few committees.

Now is the time to watch the rise of this power and understand those prophecies. Our latest Trumpet issue, “Up in Arms,” has articles explaining Europe’s sudden military rise, how Germany is about to get a strongman, and why it already dominates the Mediterranean Sea. 

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Germany Is Looking for a New Charlemagne

Germany Is Looking for a New Charlemagne 

A horrifying empire is rising with the same evil spirit behind it.

By Gerald Flurry

'The pro-Nazi line is gaining a strong foothold in Germany and Europe. It is accelerating at a mind-dizzying pace. Most of the world ignores it, but that won’t make it go away. On the contrary, this negligent attitude encourages it tremendously.”

I wrote those words in 1998 after a far-right party received 13 percent of the vote in a German state and the mainstream parties adopted their talking points (“Nazi Spirit Soars in Europe”).

Look where we are today! In the last German federal elections, on February 23, another far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), came in second place nationwide with an astonishing 20 percent of the vote. This party has some troubling associations with Nazism! Leaders in this party have encouraged people “to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars” and have called German Holocaust remembrance a “stupid coping policy.”

The AfD is pushing for independence from the United States. This is a very popular, mainstream position among Germans that will have frightening consequences. The AfD also wants Germany to have closer relations with Russia. This is reminiscent of the years leading up to World War ii.

U.S. presidential adviser Elon Musk has been encouraging the AfD to keep growing. At one of their party rallies, he told them to be proud, not ashamed, of German history. He doesn’t understand history. He certainly doesn’t understand Bible prophecy, or he would never make such a statement.

The AfD came in a strong second place to the conservative Christian Democratic Union (cdu), which secured 28 percent of the vote. It was clear that voters wanted drastic change from the previous left-wing government—a coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats. All three parties were big losers in this election. The Social Democrats achieved its worst result ever, and the Free Democrats didn’t even gain enough votes to make it into parliament.

Germany has been plagued by weak leadership for many years now. But Germany and Europe really need strong leadership—especially given what Russia is doing, as well as China, North Korea and other nations, and the many economic and other problems they are facing. This leadership crisis has been heightened by the pressure the Trump administration has been exerting.

The U.S. Confronts Europe

Germany’s coalition collapsed on Nov. 6, 2024, almost immediately after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the presidential election. Germany’s leadership crisis is directly linked to Mr. Trump’s comeback.

Since then, in the lead-up to the election in Germany, this fact has become more pronounced. America is threatening to withdraw its troops from the Continent and demanding drastically increased military spending from Europe.

The weekend before its elections, Germany hosted the Munich Security Conference. At the conference, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told European leaders truths they didn’t want to hear. “[T]he threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor,” he said. “What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values: values shared with the United States of America.”

European leaders reacted emotionally—offended, frustrated and angry. “If I understood him correctly, he compares conditions in parts of Europe to those under authoritarian regimes,” said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. “That is not acceptable.” President Donald Trump “wants to destroy Europe,” an anonymous senior EU diplomat said. “The trans-Atlantic alliance is over.”

On the same trip, Mr. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent much of their trip prodding European countries to more than double their military spending.

Americans don’t realize what empire they are empowering!

In a televised roundtable on election night, cdu chancellor-candidate Friedrich Merz criticized U.S. “intervention” in the German election campaign: “The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from Moscow. We are under such massive pressure from two sides that my top priority is to create unity in Europe.

“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the U.S.A. I would never have believed that I would have to say something like that on television. But at the very least, after Donald Trump’s statements last week, it is clear that the Americans—at least this part of the Americans in this administration—are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe.

“I am very curious to see how we are heading towards the nato summit at the end of June, whether we will still be talking about nato in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defense capability much more quickly. That is my absolute priority, and I have no illusions at all about what will come out of America.”

Mr. Merz not only wants a militarily strong Europe—he also announced that he wants nuclear independence from the U.S. and a share in Britain’s and France’s nuclear bombs.

These demands are bold and audacious. But French President Emmanuel Macron has, in principle, already agreed to nuclear sharing.

Years ago, the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, “Germany’s national character is to dominate” (emphasis mine throughout). Once Germany has strong leadership, it will inevitably dominate. This has been its history! Our booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire proves this and takes you back long before the first coming of Christ. Germany’s name at that time was Assyria, and it appears in many end-time prophecies referring to modern-day Germany.

The truth is, it is not just the AfD that is causing the Nazi spirit to soar. Almost everywhere in Germany, we are seeing a dramatic revival of the old empire! We see this in its desire for a strong independent military. We see it in the anti-America rhetoric from the mainstream and the far right. We see it in the increased attacks on Jews, minorities and politicians. And we see it in the longing for a strong authoritarian leader.

It is urgent that we understand what is happening in Europe—especially Germany!

While Germany lay in ruins and ashes after World War ii, Herbert W. Armstrong had the crystal-clear, prophetic vision to see that Germany would rise again, when nobody else thought it would. In fact, the victors asserted they would ensure the Germans didn’t rise again militarily, but they failed to do that.

Mr. Armstrong knew that another great power would come on the scene—the greatest resurrection ever of the Holy Roman Empire, prophesied in Revelation 17. As everybody was saying Germany would never rise again, Mr. Armstrong was proclaiming around the world that it would rise again, stronger than ever!

Bible prophecy says the Holy Roman Empire is going to emerge out of the current European Union, but it will be pared down to 10 kings (Daniel 2; Revelation 17). The Bible’s prophecies are always fulfilled!

History rings clarion alarm bells about the Holy Roman Empire. Its past is full of intolerance, conspiracy, betrayal, bloodshed, executions and other nightmares. But what happened historically is only a foretaste of the carnage this final resurrection is prophesied to inflict! And it will not be friends of America, Britain or the Jewish state.

Another holocaust is coming! The Jewish people, Americans, Britons and the whole world need to be warned!

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Elisha Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, wrote an article in USA Today. In the midst of rising anti-Semitism, when the butchers of Hamas are considered partners in negotiation, he asked a penetrating question: “Will we continue giving moral credibility to voices who say that the tiny nation of Israel is the villain for refusing to die?”

He quoted what his father told Ronald Reagan on national tv: “The issue here is not politics, but good and evil. And we must never confuse them, for I have seen the SS at work, and I have seen their victims.” That is history we ought never to forget. The Bible warns that it is about to be repeated—and much worse. We must have God’s protection to ensure that it does not happen to us!

For decades, we have been warning about the rise of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. Soon, they are going to catapult the world suddenly into another world war! That is a very negative prophecy, but there is great hope directly linked to it.

Longing for Charlemagne

There is one big problem with all of Friedrich Merz’s goals: He will have to achieve them in a weak coalition, probably with the Social Democrats—the very party he opposed in the election campaign and that suffered a historic loss.

This is why democratically elected leaders have repeatedly failed to meet new challenges. This is why Germans long for radically different leadership. They are desperate for a strong leader—a modern Charlemagne.

In fact, all of Europe is longing for a Charlemagne!

Every year the international Charlemagne Prize is awarded to an individual who has worked to unite Europe. The trouble is, among all those leaders of Europe today, none has the prestige of Charlemagne!

The Bible, however, reveals that Europe will get a new Charlemagne who is going to hijack what will become the Holy Roman Empire. The German people will come to realize that there is a great danger in that. An evil spirit will get control of Europe’s next emperor.

History shows us what that means.

“In the year 782, Charlemagne, the king of the Franks, became the military champion of the papacy, stepping into the vacuum created by the separation of Constantinople and Rome, and defending the papacy from the Lombards who kept threatening it,” David N. Samuel wrote. “Pope Leo iii crowned Charlemagne emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral in 800. The future of Europe was bound up in that event, and the alliance between the papacy and Germany has been of great significance ever since” (European Union and the Roman Catholic Influence in Britain).

Throughout the centuries that followed, Germany was Europe’s greatest perpetrator in instigating bloodshed.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung noted: “This ruler, who is still present in many places in Frankfurt today … is by no means undisputed. Charlemagne, who was crowned emperor in Rome in 800, has gone down in history as power-obsessed and cruel, indeed as a butcher of the Saxons, whom he subjugated and converted to Christianity” (Jan. 22, 2021).

On May 8, 1997, former German President Roman Herzog received the Charlemagne Prize for his efforts to unite Europe. In his acceptance speech, Dr. Herzog said, “For 1,000 years, the destiny of our continent has revolved around the choice between a cohesive or a fragmented Europe. Charlemagne, after whom our prize is named, made his own particular choice: the first unification of Europe. At such an hour, the truth must be told: Only by wading through a sea of blood, sweat and tears did he reach his goal.”

There was a lot of truth in that statement about how Charlemagne took over Europe. He did it violently and killed many thousands of people!

Charlemagne was one of Adolf Hitler’s heroes. He too argued that Charlemagne’s violence was necessary to unite the German people. Professor and renowned German medieval researcher Johannes Fried told Die Welt in 2014 that Hitler praised Charlemagne in “preparation for his own violent actions, praising Charlemagne was a legitimization strategy.”

Charlemagne was the man the Third Reich really looked to. He is also the man that Europe looks to today.

German leaders are seeking a new Charlemagne. They want a strong leader over Europe. The fact that Europe’s elite today and Hitler of old revere the same man is a dangerous sign!

Hitler Was Satan-Possessed

Adolf Hitler was a weak little man, but when he got up to speak, he had tremendous power! In his book The Psychopathic God—Adolf Hitler, Robert G. L. Waite wrote: “This thundering demon was not there before …. A limp, little man changed into a force of overwhelming power ….”

Where did Hitler get this power? He got it from Satan the devil who possessed him! That’s what your Bible says, and you will see it happen again.

When he gave those powerful speeches, it was a sight to behold. Hitler said, “Neither a military nor a civilian personality could replace me. … I am convinced of the strength of my brain and my resolution. … The fate of the Reich is dependent entirely upon me.” Hitler had more power than a normal man.

Hitler became Satan-possessed by worshiping the bloody history of the Holy Roman Empire. “He insisted … that his early years in Vienna were absolutely crucial to his career because ‘at that time I formed an image of the world and a view of life which became the foundation for my actions …. I have had to change nothing’” (ibid). In Vienna he saw the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. He wanted the power they symbolized. He wanted to be like Charlemagne—only stronger.

“Albert Speer, who knew Hitler best during World War ii, was convinced that the führer’s intellectual development stopped with the world as he had known it in Vienna in 1910” (ibid). That is amazing. Even as a teenager he was fascinated and mesmerized by those crown jewels. Something was happening to him, and he didn’t even know what it was. He was very deceived.

In Vienna, Hitler came to believe that the Germans, not the Jews, were the chosen people of God. This thought isn’t biblical; it comes from Satan the devil. The Germans are also a great people, and God will use them mightily in the future. But we must expose Satan’s deceit.

The imperial crown, the orb of empire, the scepter and the imperial sword were in Vienna for 140 years; Hitler returned them to Nuremberg. After taking the insignia of the First Reich, he called his empire the Third Reich. “At the presentation of these symbols of imperialism, he solemnly vowed that they would remain in Nuremburg forever” (John Toland, Adolf Hitler).

He was fascinated by what happened in Vienna. Winston Churchill thought Hitler developed his worldview later in Munich, but that’s not true. He got everything he wanted in Vienna with those crown jewels.

Among all the relics of this empire, Hitler coveted the crown of Charlemagne most of all.

The same crown jewels fascinate European leaders to this day. In 2018, these crown jewels were featured in a special exhibit correlating with Austria’s presidency of the European Council that year.

European parliamentarian Otto von Habsburg once said, “We do possess a European symbol which belongs to all nations equally. This is the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, which embodies the tradition of Charlemagne.” How true! That European crown is that of the Holy Roman Empire, a crown that sits in a museum in Vienna. And oh, Hitler loved that! Charlemagne was his hero!

Habsburg added: “The [European] Community is living largely by the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, though the great majority of the people who live by it don’t know by what heritage they live.” That is amazing!

Revelation 17 reveals that, after World War ii, this empire went underground. To this day, they don’t talk about it much publicly. Surely they know Herbert W. Armstrong prophesied about it; his powerful message reached millions around the world. He warned many people what would happen to Germany and how they would again lead that Holy Roman Empire.

Mr. Armstrong is no longer alive, but he left a lot of literature about the rise of the last resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire, the one that Jesus Christ would destroy at His Second Coming! That is why the leaders of the Holy Roman Empire hide what they are doing.

The descent underground was itself prophesied. It is a shame that the world won’t pay attention to what Bible prophecy says!

All seven heads of the Holy Roman Empire have been diabolical and destructive. Millions died in the Middle Ages, as you can prove from history books. We have to be careful because it’s going to rise again suddenly. We should not be caught unawares.

Possessed Leader Prophesied

Germany is about to be transformed by the emergence of a strong leader who will have the same spirit that possessed Charlemagne and Hitler.

Habakkuk 1:6-8 prophesy, “For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.” This refers to the Holy Roman Empire. (Prove that with our free booklet Habakkuk.)

Verse 11 tells what happens in the mind of the leader of this last Holy Roman Empire: “Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.” This man thought he worshiped the great God, but it was actually the god of this world! (2 Corinthians 4:4). That satanic spirit that empowers him causes this nightmarish mind change.

Daniel 8:23 also speaks about this new Charlemagne: “And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.” This is the new Charlemagne, a powerful leader who will shock the world just as that Holy Roman Empire did many times in the past!

“And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power …” (verse 24). What other power did he have? The power of Satan the devil! This is a man possessed by the devil! “[A]nd he shall destroy wonderfully [mightily], and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people” (verse 24). This refers to God’s own lukewarm people in this end time who must be plunged into the Great Tribulation, a time of suffering caused by the Holy Roman Empire empowered by the devil.

The question then is, who will be Germany’s next Charlemagne?

We have been watching Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, a former German defense minister, for quite some time. He is a brilliant man in many ways. He followed Edmund Stoiber, a protégé of Franz Josef Strauss of the Christian Social Union. Baron Guttenberg could be the one to rise to power and fulfill these prophecies.

Where will this lead? “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many …” (verse 25). This strongman is a deceitful liar with much power and a great military! Germany today is one of the top armaments exporters, and they do a lot of it secretly through factories in other countries. They are becoming very powerful. But they will soon be far more powerful—once the prophesied 10 kings unite under them. Revelation 17:12-13 say, “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” Revelation 17:12 reads: “And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.” Commenting on this scripture, Mr. Armstrong wrote in the October 1962 Plain Truth: “The beast, then, is the leader, or ruler, over all—and 10 other dictator-kings, or lesser rulers over 10 European nations or nation-groups.”

We believe there will be one supreme king over 10 kings. (There is a slight possibility that there could be just 10 kings total and that the leadership would come out of Germany.) Given that Revelation 17 is a prophecy of a church-state combine known as the Holy Roman Empire, Mr. Armstrong strongly believed that those leaders would be Catholic.

We may be seeing some indications who the dictator-king, or lesser ruler, over Germany could be. Friedrich Merz is a Roman Catholic who has repeatedly called for a guiding culture in Germany based on Christian, or rather Catholic, values. He is also an outspoken advocate for a European army. Since his party won the election, he has been acting with unusual urgency and zeal to create a militarized Germany—even defying democratic norms doing so. Furthermore, he enjoys the support of Guttenberg, who we believe may be the “one supreme king.”

Verse 14 prophesies that the Holy Roman Empire of Mussolini and Hitler will rise once more before Jesus Christ returns.

The political party of Giorgia Meloni, who now rules Italy, is directly tied to Mussolini, Hitler’s ally in World War ii.

These forces are building again just as God prophesies, and just as Mr. Armstrong said they would and as we have been saying for 35 years. These forces are going to unleash a terrible time and cause incalculable suffering!

But notice: This coming leader “shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand” (Daniel 8:25). He is going to confront Jesus Christ Himself and be smashed and crushed! Christ is going to destroy the 10 kings! Then He will establish His own righteous Kingdom with the peace, happiness and joy to Earth that we all should have had a long time ago but have been denied because of our rebellion against God!

Revelation 12:12 states that Satan knows his time is short! Do you know that? This wonderful future, where Christ supplants the evil kingdoms of this world, is coming soon!

source:

https://www.thetrumpet.com/31138-germany-is-looking-for-a-new-charlemagne.

Gerald Flurry

 

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