Europe, Germany in particular, reacted with horror to United States Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference last Friday. He told European leaders some 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.”

Vice President Vance is right to be worried. Herbert W. Armstrong warned for decades that America allying with and empowering Germany was a catastrophic mistake. Vance’s speech shows that some Americans are waking up to this fact—but nowhere near enough.

The Continent is rejecting democracy, Vance said. In Romania they canceled an election and ordered it to be re-run. A European Union official boasted that they could do the same thing in Germany. Mr. Vance exposed the way free speech is under attack across the Continent. He pointed out that even in the United Kingdom a person can be arrested for private, silent prayer if that prayer is near an abortion clinic.

European leaders reacted emotionally—offended, frustrated, 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.”

In his speech, Vance told Europe’s leaders, “I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team.” But is he right about that?

While they hated Vance’s speech, Europe’s representatives loved the speech from Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. It was full of platitudes about the EU and China being “partners, not rivals.” Deutsche Welle noted that Wang “used a more accommodating and reconciliatory tone to address Europeans.” So Europeans are willing to look past the fact that China has 2 million of its own citizens in concentration camps, it spies intensively on its own citizens, and it has no free speech. China doesn’t criticize the EU, so Europeans will overlook the problems and build their relations.

Vance was right about much of his criticism of Europe. But he fails to see the Europeans are fundamentally not on the same team as America! They are siding with China and actively working against American interests!

Despite this, Vice President Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent much of their trip to Munich prodding European countries to more than double their military spending. America has been paying for their defense, and Donald Trump wants to shift that burden back onto Europe.

But if these countries spend 5 percent of gross domestic product on their military, that would make Europe a military superpower. Germany alone would be spending $200 billion—more than Russia, which is at war!

Has the U.S. really thought this through?

The way German leaders and press responded to JD Vance’s speech showed a lot of antipathy toward the United States! Where is this leading? What does it mean to you and your future?

In the short run, this hatred is going to lead to terrifying problems. But in the long run, it is introducing us to the most wonderful news we could ever hear.

Keeping Germany Down

When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was started back in 1949, its basic purpose was to protect disarmed Germany and other European countries from the Russian-led Soviet Union. To accomplish this, the treaty established “collective defense” for member nations: If an aggressor attacked one of them, it would have war with all of them.

That alliance prevented Germany from being invaded by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. America even gave Germany nuclear bombs so it could threaten nuclear retribution if Soviet forces tried to take West Germany. America spent billions raising Germany from the rubble of World War ii and billions more keeping the peace in Europe. Germany would not be where it is today without the tremendous help America supplied.

Why would Germany spurn that history? Many elite Germans feel their nation has now gotten all it can from the U.S. and are ready to move on. Some powerful Germans are thinking more and more about the Holy Roman Empire, and they want modern Germany to assume more power of its own in the spirit of that empire. They want to establish Europe as a mighty, German-led superpower.

These Germans know that nato is an obstacle to their goal. When nato was first founded, its first secretary general, Hastings Ismay, explained its main purpose: “Keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” The notion of keeping “the Germans down” directly contradicts the imperialistic ambitions that are growing more intense among many elite Germans today.

Removing America will put Germany on top of a Europe scrambling to ensure it has the firepower to defend itself. This military force would not fight to uphold nato and the America-led world order: It would fight for an independent, dominant Europe.

A Strong Leader

Vance’s visit came just days before Germany’s elections, to be held this Sunday. Watch those elections closely.

The Bible has many prophecies of a strong leader rising on the European scene in the end time and wreaking havoc in the world. The Trumpet has been watching for this leader for many years, and now conditions in Europe and the rest of the world are opening the door for him to emerge. As crises intensify, Europeans are crying out for strong leadership!

We have said for years we believe that strongman will be Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former defense minister of Germany. We believe there are strong indications this man will become the next German chancellor.

Mr. Guttenberg hates Donald Trump. A great many European leaders agree with his point of view. Will they listen to him even more after this visit?

President Trump certainly provokes a fierce response from Guttenberg. One thing that has caught my attention about Guttenberg since 2016 is how often he uses public speaking opportunities to attack and insult Trump. He has called him “den blonden Wüterich in Washington.” Wüterich translates to “maniac,” “ruthless tyrant” or “violent madman.” What a condemnation! What motivates such an attitude?

Guttenberg said on national television on Nov. 14, 2023, that given Trump’s chances of returning to the White House, “we are not preparing ourselves enough for the possibility that the blond bully may once again be taking the reins into his hands.” “Trump is not a friend of the Germans,” he added. He claimed that Americans, including Republicans, have told him personally that Mr. Trump is “likely the greatest scumbag that we have ever had in U.S. politics.” That is quite nasty!

Guttenberg would clearly be glad to break from Donald Trump’s America! This is the man who could rule Germany in a short time.

Most Americans don’t realize how violently our allies are condemning our foreign policy. They are too absorbed and distracted with sports, entertainment and domestic issues to be interested.

But this is something everyone should be concerned about. What makes the German-American split especially important is this: It is exactly what biblical prophecy told us would happen!

A Prophecy About Two Sisters

One prophecy of this breakup is found in Ezekiel 23. Ezekiel is an end-time book, and this is an end-time prophecy. Please pay close attention to what this passage says.

“The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt …. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah” (verses 1-4).

This may sound complicated, but it isn’t. These two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, symbolize the two nations of Israel following its division after Solomon’s reign. Samaria was the ancient capital of the northern 10-tribed kingdom of Israel, and Jerusalem remained the capital of the remaining tribes in the southern kingdom of Judah. “They were mine,” God says. He was married to Israel anciently (e.g. Jeremiah 3:14; 31:32).

In the end time, God applies the name Israel specifically to two nations: America and Britain. Most end-time prophecies about Israel are aimed at them. (This truth is explained in our book The United States and Britain in Prophecy. Request a free copy.) These nations are symbolized by Aholah in this prophecy.

“And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself” (Ezekiel 23:5-7).

These scriptures show how America and Britain became lovers of the Assyrians. Who are the Assyrians? We have proved for years that in Bible prophecy, Assyria refers to the modern nation of Germany. To prove this for yourself, read our free e-book The Remarkable Identity of the German People.

If we don’t understand these biblical names, we cannot understand Bible prophecy. The Bible is a coded book, and we need the code in order to understand it. Thankfully, God has given us that code. He has revealed who these people are in this end time because He wants us to take warning from these prophecies. Such prophecies take up one third of your Bible! Yet even religious people seem unconcerned.

Has America been Germany’s lover? Since World War ii, the U.S. has snuggled up to Germany. It has actually done a lot to help Germany become the number one power in Europe! In 2000, Germans recognized President Bill Clinton by giving him the Charlemagne Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in Germany. In 2009, America’s ambassador to Germany called the Washington-Berlin partnership “the most important relationship of the past 60 years.” For many years now, America has been encouraging Germany to take on a stronger global leadership role and even to strengthen its military might.

The Second Sister

Ezekiel 23 goes on to talk about Aholibah, referring to Judah. The modern identity of Judah is well known, because it was never lost: It is the Jews—in our day specifically, the Jewish state called Israel. Ezekiel’s prophecy reveals that the Jews also have an inordinate love for Assyria, even worse than what Aholah had.

“And when her sister Aholibah [the Jews] saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she …. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously …” (verses 11-12). Most of this prophecy revolving around Judah’s love affair with Assyria is yet to come. Notice that God specifically references the “captains and rulers” of Assyria who are “clothed most gorgeously.” This is referring to the military might of Assyria. Germany displayed it powerfully in World Wars i and ii. Germany started both of those wars, and it is gaining that military might back once again today. Yet the birthright nations of Israel—America and Britain—and the modern nation of Judah are just doting on their lover. America, Britain and the Jews have an inordinate love relationship with Germany.

God established that nation for the Jews in 1948 and sustained it for many years, but they are bringing deeper and deeper problems upon themselves. God is acutely upset about this. He commands His people to warn Judah and Israel about their sins and the consequences they will bring.

Verses 16 and 17 discuss more lovers of these two sisters—not just Assyria, but also Chaldea and the Babylonians. While these two were different than Assyria anciently, the Babylonian lover today is in cahoots with Assyria, morphing into the Holy Roman Empire. (To understand, request Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.)

When the U.S. and Britain fought Germany in World War ii, we were fighting the Holy Roman Empire. Yet for more than half a century now, we have embraced the Germans.

What is the end result of this “lover” relationship? Ezekiel’s prophecy reveals exactly where it is leading! It records the news for us in advance! This is an end-time prophecy aimed specifically at these two sisters, which happen to be three modern nations.

The Prophesied Split

Ezekiel 23:17 shows that the Jews’ “mind was alienated from them”—from their German lovers. Verses 9-10 show what will become of America and Britain because of this tryst. It says the Germans “slew her with the sword” and “executed judgment upon her”! This relationship ends with a massive double cross that brings these nations down!

That is where this is leading! This is just one of dozens of prophecies showing how Germany is going to turn once again into the worst enemy of these nations in the end time.

Germany was prophesied to break away from America, and it is happening before our eyes. But the animosity we see today is only the smallest beginning!

Why would God allow this to happen to America, Britain and the Jewish state? It is His correction against these nations for their sins. “The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations” (verse 36). God is concerned with the abominations taking place in Israel and Judah, and He has His people declare their sins to them.

God is revealing what is happening in this end time, and He uses a little group of people to declare those prophecies to the world through understanding these biblical peoples. But who will understand that unless they are willing to really study their Bible?

Watch It Happen

You can know absolutely where the German-American relationship is heading. Events right now are leading toward a terrifying end, and you can recognize it if you pay attention.

Bible prophecy warns that a German-led European empire is going to rise up. We have said for over 50 years that it will probably be more powerful than both America and Russia!

The age of American global leadership is drawing to a close. While the Germans might not come out and say so, they are reveling in that fact. Relations are going to worsen until one of America’s greatest allies since World War ii becomes, once again, its greatest enemy!

What Germany doesn’t realize is that it is only a tool in God’s hands to accomplish His purpose of correcting Israel, both Aholibah and Aholah.

The Ultimate Conclusion

If you follow the prophecies to their conclusion, you recognize that all of this will end with the most wonderful civilization on Earth you could even dream of!

Daniel 7:7 describes a dreadful and terrible beast that represents the Roman Empire. It has 10 horns, and the last seven of these are the Holy Roman Empire. That empire has come and gone six times throughout history, and the seventh and final resurrection is emerging today.

Notice what comes immediately after that: “I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened” (verses 9-10). This is about a new civilization that is coming—ruled by “the Ancient of days”!

“These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever” (verses 17-18). This is what God says about our future and about the saints who get behind God’s message before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and declare this message to Aholah and Aholibah and many others.

“Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom” (verse 22). People who help support this message today are going to help Jesus Christ rule over that new civilization. God is training new rulers right now to prepare for this marvelous future—and it is almost here!

This is what comes after the bad news. The fulfillment of these end-time events shows that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is very near. But there is going to be some catastrophic suffering first! All of us should take heed to God’s warning.