Here are five of the most important news stories this week, as well as relevant links to the full articles and videos here on theTrumpet.com.

Spies Spying on Spies: Germany Sets Up New Counterespionage Unit

The German Federal Intelligence Service (bnd) has officially resurrected its counterespionage service and “is working to build up its own powerful force to spy on foreign intelligence agencies,” Spiegel Online reported on March 16.

The move, following the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, is seemingly justifiable. But considering the bnd’s Nazi past and its current massive buildup, the world should be deeply alarmed by modern Germany and its revived counterespionage service.

Europe Promises Military Aid to Lebanon

During the Rome ii conference of representatives from 40 countries, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri secured a $61.6 million aid pledge from the European Union. France—one of Lebanon’s long-time patrons—created a €400 million ($494.5 million) credit facility for Beirut to buy military hardware for its army and security forces. This growing relationship is part of a prophesied trend of Lebanon shifting away from Iran and more toward Europe.

In Challenge to Dollar, China Launches Landmark Oil Futures Contract

On March 26, China launched a crude oil futures contract denominated in its currency, the yuan. ZeroHedge wrote that “this could be a death blow for an already weakening U.S. dollar, and the rise of the yuan as the dominant world currency.”

The world’s number one importer of crude oil may now be positioned to topple the petrodollar with a petroyuan and trigger a prophetically significant global financial meltdown.

Barack Obama’s Youth Movement

At a conference in Japan on March 25, former United States President Barack Obama said he wanted to create “a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas.” He announced that the Obama Foundation—a Chicago-based nonprofit founded in 2014—would be his primary platform for accomplishing this dream. As benign as his goal might seem, Mr. Obama, and other politicians like him, is attempting to kick off a political revolution.

A divided America, as history and Bible prophecy show, is extremely vulnerable to attack by foreign enemies.

Rare Jewish Revolt Coins Discovered in Jerusalem Cave

Dozens of coins relating to the Jewish revolt have been discovered in a Jerusalem excavation. The 2,000-year-old coins date specifically from the second through fourth years of the famed rebellion against the Roman Empire which led to the a.d. 70 destruction of Jerusalem.

The coins were discovered during the current season of renewed excavations at the Ophel led by Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and fully funded by Herbert W. Armstrong College of Edmond, Oklahoma, whose students comprise the bulk of the workforce.

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