Saturday, 3 March 2018
The Isaiah Bulla
Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem make the Bible come alive. Learn about the latest Earth-shaking discovery in the Holy City—and the significance it holds for every person on the planet—next, on The Key of David, with Gerald Flurry. ORDER FREE LITERATURE: https://goo.gl/UX2aFB READ MORE BY GERALD FLURRY: https://www.thetrumpet.com/authors/4-... LEARN MORE ABOUT GERALD FLURRY:https://goo.gl/WPjom7 https://www.pcog.org/about/gerald-flurry Jewish archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar has always relied on the Bible as an accurate historical record. By simply believing what the Bible says, she has unearthed a number of momentous artifacts. Request your free digital copy of this Key of David program, titled “The Isaiah Bulla].” Dr. Mazar has found a clay seal impression that appears to bear the name of the Prophet Isaiah. Learn how the evidence and the context point to this conclusion. Understand the powerful lessons that you can take away from Isaiah’s remarkable story. His life and work are especially relevant today. You will also receive a free copy of the October-November 2013 issue of the Philadelphia Trumpet Newsmagazine. Read this special archaeology issue to learn how Dr. Mazar has used the Bible as a treasure map to lead her right to some of the greatest archaeological finds in human history. She has uncovered King David’s palace, King Solomon’s wall, Nehemiah’s wall, a gold medallion with a candlestick imprinted on it, two clay seal impressions of the Prophet Jeremiah’s captors, a clay seal of King Hezekiah, and now a clay seal most likely bearing the name of the Prophet Isaiah. Read this special archaeology issue to learn about her stunning excavation achievements in vivid detail. Understand why biblical artifacts that are thousands of years old matter so much today. Also, request Gerald Flurry’s free book Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. The Prophet Isaiah lived in Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C. At God’s direction, he worked closely with King Hezekiah to revive the kingdom of Judah. Learn how Hezekiah and Isaiah formed the greatest king-prophet tandem in the entire Bible. Isaiah wrote about God’s government, God’s Family, and God’s plan for the universe. You won’t find a more inspiring, far-reaching vision in all the Bible. All our materials are available free of charge, at no cost or obligation to you. Request a DVD of this television program, the Philadelphia Trumpet special archaeology issue, and Isaiah’s End-Time Vision. Order now!
Friday, 2 March 2018
China’s Great Leap Toward One-Man Rule Should Alarm Us All
https://www.thetrumpet.com/16989-chinas-great-leap-toward-one-man-rule-should-alarm-us-all
Xi, China and Bible Prophecy
The Trumpet watches Xi’s tightening grip on power because Bible prophecy reveals that as America’s influence on the global stage diminishes, two power blocs will emerge to fill the space: one, a European bloc functioning in the tradition of the Holy Roman Empire; the other, an Asian entity called in Scripture “the kings of the east,” headed by Russia, with China in a secondary leadership position. The Bible makes plain—in such chapters as Jeremiah 50 and 51, Daniel 11 and 12, Revelation 16 and Matthew 24—that a clash between this European power and this Russo-Chinese-led bloc will end in the most violent conflict in human history.
The fact that Xi can now rule for as long as he lives is deeply significant. His ongoing rise and increasing control over China’s military and foreign policy is vital to watch, as it indicates how the Chinese president could fall in line with his fellow strongman in Russia and how China will be brought on to its biblically prophesied collision course with Europe. The February 25 announcement about scrapping term limits also indicates how near this future clash could be.
Although this points to a dark time in the near term, that time will be closely followed by the brightest imaginable future!
As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in his booklet The Prophesied ‘Prince of Russia’: “This immense war between European and Asian forces will end in the return of Jesus Christ! … The conclusion of that battle will mark the beginning of a peaceful and prosperous new age for the entire Earth!”
The War for Africa
https://soundcloud.com/trumpetdaily/the-war-for-africa
African nations such as Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, play key roles in end-time events.
Nunes Memo Exposes Unseen Threat to America
https://www.thetrumpet.com/16966-nunes-memo-exposes-unseen-threat-to-america
Woe to Those on Earth!
Through the Russia investigation, Satan is working to overthrow a constitutional republic and turn America into a police state like Cuba, Venezuela, Russia or China! Satan hates law. He is stoking a revolution in our land.
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. … Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Revelation 12:9, 12).
Satan and the demons tried and failed to kick God off His throne. Today, millions of evil spirits swarm the planet. They are no longer free to roam the universe. This is a cause of great rejoicing among the righteous angels elsewhere in the universe—but this is very bad news for those of us on Earth!
However, remember why the devil is so wrathful today: It is because “he knoweth that he hath but a short time.” It is just a short time before Jesus Christ returns to Earth, to lay hold on him and bind him for a thousand years (Revelation 20:1-2).
The severity of the problems plaguing us today are a sign of just how short Satan’s remaining time is.
There is a lot of bad news in the immediate future. America will not last much longer. But God is allowing all of this to happen for an important and inspiring purpose. The punishment God is bringing on America today is correction intended to set us right again.
America has a history with God that stretches back before the formation of our nation—all the way back to biblical times. You can read about this in our free book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. And the Bible reveals that our people have a hope-filled future with God as well, in a plan that includes all nations and people on Earth! Once Christ replaces Satan on the throne of the Earth, He will establish a just government, a lawful and truthful government, that will never end!
G450 update, California Curse and the wonder of God’s Creation
https://soundcloud.com/trumpetdaily/g450-update-california-curse-and-the-wonder-of-gods-creation
Is California headed for another drought? And what “should” the human cell atlas prove?
Thursday, 1 March 2018
Munich Security Conference Shows the Need for a ‘Strong Hand From Someplace’
In Jesus Christ’s day, the Pharisees failed to see their own sick minds and their need for a physician (Matthew 9:10-13). But this is not just the Pharisees’ problem. This is the number one problem of humanity today! People don’t see their own terminal sickness. They don’t yet see the need for a physician. But soon this world will be in a nuclear holocaust, created by sick human minds. Only then can God begin to teach them, because they will no longer be able to deny the fruits of their human reasoning.
As my father wrote, this is the greatest lesson that any of us can learn. We need God. That is what He’s trying to show us. But we don’t want to listen—because our carnal minds are enmity against God (Romans 8:7).
Mr. Armstrong said in a 1980 sermon:
I talk to heads of governments. And I’ve probably talked to as many as any other living man on the face of the Earth. I mean kings and presidents, and there’ve only been two over large nations—two emperors; and I have known them both personally and talked to them privately; and prime ministers over so many nations that are really heads of state and run the government. I’ve known them all over, and I talk to them in the terms that are simple. And they understand. All the troubles in the world, all of the evils in this world, have come from living the way of get!
That’s an assessment from the greatest international relations expert of the 20th century! Mr. Armstrong visited more heads of state in their own offices than any other diplomat or ambassador of his day. He was an unofficial ambassador for peace, an ambassador without a portfolio or an international relations degree. But he knew a lot more about international relations than the experts of his day, and many world leaders recognized that fact.
In 1973, Mr. Armstrong was invited to address the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He wrote about this meeting in the December 1973 Plain Truth. At the World Court, he rubbed shoulders with the same kinds of people that were in Munich this February—and he said exactly the same thing that today’s experts said after Munich. They recognized a multitude of problems, but they had no solutions.
In that Plain Truth article, Mr. Armstrong gave a history of international law and what the World Court was doing to try to bring peace. He explained that the World Court fundamentally will not work, because it only has jurisdiction over an issue if both nations bring the dispute to the court. And nations only bring issues when it is in their best interest to do so. Also, there is no world policeman to enforce the World Court’s decisions. So for the most part, nothing of substance is accomplished. It’s kind of like the United Nations—lots of rousing speeches, but no solutions.
Mr. Armstrong quoted the former secretary general of the United Nations, U. Thant, who said that in order for the UN to actually succeed, all the nations of the world would have to give up some of their sovereignty so that the UN can enforce its own rulings. However, that is never going to happen, if the nations themselves have anything to say about it. Each nation puts its own interests first, above all other nations.
Mr. Armstrong wrote: “It’s time we quit kidding ourselves. The nations are not going to act contrary to human nature.” Do you think the U.S. would give up its sovereignty and submit to the UN? What about Russia, China, Germany or Iran? This is why meetings like the Munich Security Conference fundamentally will not work. Mr. Armstrong continued:
World-renowned scientists say the world’s only hope, now, is for a world government—one superpower—one single military force—to rule all nations. In the same breath they say that’s impossible.I say, at the same time, the world’s only hope of survival is to change human nature! And man is just as powerless to do that!
Yes, man is powerless to change his own nature. But a world super-government is coming! And that necessary “strong hand from someplace” is going to crush the rebellion of the world and force mankind to live the way of peace and happiness. The nature of man will change (Joel 2:26). That is the only way that we will ever have peace.
This is at the heart of the true gospel message. Christ came with the good news of the Kingdom of God—a future world government. He was an international relations expert, educated and trained in the ways of God. He understood the problem with man and man’s nature from the very beginning.
Godly education in the true way of life is what will fix these problems. Isaiah 2 shows us that instead of learning war, the nations of the Earth will finally learn how to have peace after Christ’s return. There is a way to peace, but as Isaiah 59:8 says, man just doesn’t know that way. That is why we have so many problems—and no solutions.
Mankind has been learning the way of war for 6,000 years. However, very soon a “strong hand from someplace” will bring a new government to this Earth—a new kingdom that will finally enforce peace around the world.
To understand more on this subject and Mr. Armstrong’s unique perspective on international relations, read Gerald Flurry’s free booklet Ambassador for World Peace.
An Update From Jerusalem and More on the Isaiah-Hezekiah Alliance
https://soundcloud.com/trumpetdaily/an-update-from-jerusalem-and-more-on-the-isaiah-hezekiah-alliance
Trumpet managing editor Brad Macdonald returned from his visit to Jerusalem this week where he met and interviewed renowned archaeologist Dr. Eliat Mazar and other members of her family, as well as president of the Israel Exploration Society, Joseph Aviram. On today’s program, we talk with Brad about his visit to Jerusalem in light of Dr. Mazar’s most recent archaeological discovery: proof of the existence of the Prophet Isaiah. Also on today’s show, we take a look into the production of the The Book of Isaiah musical, written by Hebert W. Armstrong College music director Ryan Malone. Tune in to today’s show for this exciting update and more.
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