Over and over, Herbert W. Armstrong warned about the CONNECTION BETWEEN TRADE WAR AND WORLD WAR. As far back as 1960, he said that trade war would be the first blow of the biblically prophesied nuclear World War III.
In a 1971 Plain Truth magazine article titled “Trade War Looming to Trigger World War III,” Mr. Armstrong warned that American businesses were increasingly moving operations to Asia due to greedy union demands. He warned that the result would be the erosion of well-paying jobs and economic decline. He said political pressure would inevitably build to “start raising high-tariff barriers against other countries” (March 1971).
But if we engaged in the drastic protectionist policies needed to protect America’s high-cost labor, he warned, IN TIME IT WOULD INEVITABLY TRIGGER NUCLEAR WAR.
Mr. Armstrong based those predictions on prophecies in Ezekiel 7, Deuteronomy 28 and elsewhere. He said the siege God prophesied in Deuteronomy 28:52 symbolized America’s economy being battered by competition from foreign powers.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote about this in our December 2014 issue: “America’s enemies are going to cause economic problems and bring on destruction in many ways ‘until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gatesthroughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee’ (verse 52). The real pressure is coming from without. ‘In all thy gates’ refers to a trade war. The enemies of America, Britain and the Jews will attack their currencies, their financial markets, and their economic might.”
Fast-forward to today. That prophesied worldwide trade war has begun.
As history and prophecy both show, world war is next.
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