Those wild and crazy guys in Charlotte must spend hours a week investigating all they can find on Germany. In spite of all the embarrassing things their dead former leader spouted about Germany, todays leadership continue to double down on the fear laden messages of the past. Everything from Hitler being alive in South America to Germans building concentration camps in the United States in order to hang people up on meathooks before they are burned alive in ovens to the mass shipping off the teens of Americans to Europe to be their slaves. This could only happen as long as their parents had not already eaten them due to starvation. LCG and the COG so much need to see this happen in order to be proven right in their teachings. They need to see America and the rest of the so-called "Israelitish" nations punished for refusing to heed their message.
On February 2, they sent out their weekly blast called TW (Tomorrow's World) News and Prophecy email. It included two fear-laden blurbs on Europe and Germany. LCG members need to start trembling in fear over the rising up of the Beast power in Europe. Unfortunately, the Church of God has been tooting that horn for decades, even inviting the man they just knew was going to be the Beast to come and speak at Ambassador College. Franz Joseph Strauss is dead and gone. Herbert Armstrong's dead and gone. Rod Meredith is dead and gone. Gerald Waterhouse is dead and gone. Yet here we are, the same worn-out pathetic message they've been harping on for decades. Will they continue down this route when Gerald Weston and Richard Ames are dead and gone?
Will the 2024 Elections Change the World?
The 2024 calendar year will see a record number of national and parliamentary elections, with nearly half the world’s population, 3.8 billion people, theoretically going to the polls to vote for new leaders (January 1, 2024). As Nicholas Vinocur notes in an article for Politico, “Indeed, from the United States to the U.K. and European Union, from India to Mexico, and from Taiwan to Indonesia, some of the world’s most strategically important countries will hold elections this year.”
Many analysts fear that the results of this year’s elections could shift the world away from democracy and toward more authoritarianism. Dictators will likely remain and Europe could see a hard-right shift. While far-right candidates in the EU may not have enough support to take many high-level positions, their growing numbers will affect Europe’s laws and decisions. Many fear new leaders will reduce the power of the courts and silence the independent press. As a Georgetown University professor lamented in the Politico article, “Democracy is being challenged everywhere—not just in places that rank poorly on surveys of democratic values, but also in established democracies like the United States and the European Union.” A professor of EU law at HEC Business School in France observed, “This could be the year when we see the breakdown of the rules-based order.”
The book of Revelation describes the future rise of a European dictator known as “the beast,” who will eventually lead a configuration of ten nations or leaders in Europe just prior to the return of Jesus Christ. This coming “beast” will be backed by a powerful religious leader, “the false prophet”—an individual the Apostle Paul says “opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). The 2024 elections could be a prelude to significant changes in global politics that may help to set the stage for such dramatic events. The wise will be watching.
And then in the next blurb they had this:
Europe Pushed to Stand Alone
Western Europe and America have been allies in two world wars, the Persian Gulf crises, and many other conflicts. However, the winds of change are blowing, and the possibility of a second Trump presidency has European leaders facing a new reality—that Europe’s future defense may be up to Europeans alone (Politico, January 16, 2024)!
The United States has been Europe’s “security blanket” since at least World War II. American nuclear weapons, tanks and aircraft, and over 100,000 American troops on Europe’s soil have given comfort to many European leaders. But with America’s waning support and a larger war looming in Europe, EU leaders are pushing to rapidly re-arm and increase their own nuclear capabilities. German European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber warned, “Europe must build deterrence, we must be able to deter and defend ourselves…. We all know that when push comes to shove, the nuclear option is the really decisive one” (Politico, January 25, 2024). “Germany's military has sketched out an ‘exercise scenario’ for its planners to contemplate. It envisions a Russian attack into the Suwalki Gap between Poland and Lithuania in the period between this year’s U.S. presidential election and early 2025” (Politico, January 24, 2024). The German defense minister recently warned that German experts expect Russia could attack a NATO member in the next five to eight years. Another observer noted, “As the history of the 20th century has shown, [European] democracies may be slow to turn to a war footing, but once they do, they’re difficult to match.”
Bible prophecy indicates that Germany will lead a powerful European configuration of nations at the end of the age. External threats and fading support from America may prod Germany to act.
War is looming on the horizon. Germany is rising. Armstrongists tremble in fear.
Never do you see LCG or the improperly named "continuing" Church of "god" ever talk about the good things coming out of Germany.
Some recent headlines Armstrongists quickly ignore:
Germany's Scholz 'ashamed' at antisemitism wave as 'Kristallnacht' pogrom marked
