‘No Kings’ Well-Funded, Incoherent Anger

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On Saturday, large crowds turned out for “No Kings” rallies across the United States and Europe to protest President Donald Trump’s policies, including U.S. involvement in the war with Iran. Demonstrations also opposed the administration’s immigration enforcement actions and other domestic policies.

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• U.S. organizers estimated that at least 8 million people participated in more than 3,300 events worldwide, with the vast majority in the U.S. across all 50 states.

The protests were largely organized by Indivisible.org. This activist group has helped spearhead “No Kings” since it started, providing training, digital tools, talking points and resources to local affiliates. It receives major grants from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and funding from several other entities linked to the Democracy Alliance donor network.

• “No Kings” also receives life support from a network of about 500 left-leaning activist organizations with combined annual funding estimated at around $3 billion, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. This includes socialist and Communist-aligned groups such as the People’s Forum, Party for Socialism and Liberation, answer Coalition, CodePink and Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
• Some of these have ties to Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. tech entrepreneur and self-described Communist who sends funds to these people from his base in China.

These groups know how to draw large crowds and foment anger and hatred. But apart from being anti-Trump, their messaging is an incoherent mess.

• They preach “we the people” representation and detest Trump for implementing the immigration policies for which he was elected. They are upset at him for the executive actions they cheered Obama and Biden for.
• They demand that Trump respect constitutional guardrails—and that he spend federal funds regardless of congressional approval. They simultaneously insist on the rule of law and praise anarchic policies.
• They decry authoritarianism while they march with hammer-and-sickle flags and call for a Communist revolution.

These subversives represent a noisy fringe in America. Yet broader indicators, like President Trump’s low approval ratings amid policy controversies (Iran, immigration enforcement, economy), represent significant discontent that fuels turnout at such events.

It is a sign of the Prophet Isaiah’s description of end-time America, whose “whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint,” filled with wounds and sickness from crown to toe (Isaiah 1:5-6). Such events highlight America’s broken will to fight against lawlessness, from within their homes to their borders to suicidal Islamist global terrorists. Is there stronger proof that our personal lives, our convictions, our purpose or lack of it, have real-world tactical and strategic consequences?

Anglican Female Archbishop Enthroned in ‘Woke Fever Dream’

On Wednesday, Sarah Elizabeth Malallie was formally enthroned as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to hold the office in its 1,400-year history.

• The New York Times called it historic. The Church of England called it hopeful. The Trumpet calls it a symptom of the institution’s terminal illness.

Symbolic: Malallie was installed in a ceremony that included pink-haired clergy, ecumenical chanting and pageantry that looked, in the words of one observer, like a “woke fever dream.”

The ongoing liberalization of the Church of England was also highlighted in October when its head, King Charles III of England, visited the Vatican and prayed with the pope in the Sistine Chapel, the first time a British monarch had done so since the Church of England broke from Rome 500 years prior. Charles also said, before becoming king, that he wanted to be a “defender of faith,” rather than “the defender of the faith” as specified in the coronation oath.

• The Church of England had weekly attendance exceeding 1 million in 1980. That figure has now dropped below 700,000 in a country of 68 million people.
• Meanwhile, Roman Catholic conversions are surging. The New York Times reported this week that bishops across the United States are trying to understand the source of a wave of new converts, the most pronounced cohort of which is adults ages 18 to 35.

Not silly—serious: The enthronement ceremony had all the gravity of a theatrical production. But this is not fiction. The Church of England is crumbling, and Britain is crumbling with it.

• For decades, the Church of England has chased relevance by pursuing fashionable societal trends. The appointment of Archbishop Malallie, a former health-care worker, is offered as the solution to those decades of decline. But this “fresh start” is actually doubling down on changing the church to be more like society instead of the other way around.

The Church of England could not more clearly reject the Holy Bible’s New Testament teaching in 1 Timothy 2:12: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man ….”

Bible prophecy warns: “For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed” (Isaiah 9:16).

The Church of England reflects England’s national character. When even the nation’s church rejects God’s Word, the nation is cut off from God. Britain is not simply struggling politically or militarily; it is spiritually lost. A female archbishop of Canterbury did not cause this dire spiritual state, but it is one of its clearest symptoms.

Houthis Bring Back Red Sea Threat

Yemen’s Houthi terror group entered the Middle East conflict on Saturday on the side of Iran, firing two missiles at Israel. Their entering the latest war renews this threat at the same time that Iran is targeting civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz, seriously constricting the global circulatory system that is maritime trade.

• The Houthis’ Shiite militia is an Iranian proxy that rules half of Yemen as an Islamist state. From Oct. 7, 2023, through 2025, they launched more than 100 missile and drone attacks on civilian cargo ships in the Red Sea, effectively blocking shipping there.
• After the Houthis attacked ships bound for Israel in 2023, insurers drastically raised prices or dropped coverage for vessels in the Red Sea, forcing most of the world’s major shipping corporations to route cargo from Asia to Europe around South Africa, adding well over a week to every voyage and an estimated $1 million in additional fuel, crew, charter, insurance and overhead costs. But Moller-Maersk and other shippers to this day still favor the costly detour over using the Red Sea.

The current Iran war has all but closed the Strait of Hormuz, the maritime choke point connecting the Persian Gulf, and 20 percent of all oil consumed on the planet, with the wider world. This has caused drastic spikes in global oil prices.

• Iran’s ability to terrorize maritime choke points is one of its most powerful leverages in its war against the West.

Prophecy’s perspective: Daniel 11:40 is a prophecy dated to “the time of the end,” which speaks of a “king of the south” leading a “push” against a “king of the north” to world war. As we explain in the following Trends article, this refers to a modern-day clash between Iran’s proxy empire and united Europe.

• The root word for push means “to gore,” or a sore provocation. Mr. Flurry has pointed to Iran’s attacks on Europe’s trade routes as a significant part of that push. Iran’s control of Yemen via the Houthis plays into this strategy.

As the Houthis attacked merchant ships in the Red Sea, Mr. Flurry wrote in the May-June 2024 Philadelphia Trumpet:

Germany in particular is upset and angry over the economic loss caused by Iran. All its commercial ships have had to detour around South Africa. For this reason alone, this could become the big push of Daniel 11:40. We don’t know yet, but this certainly looks like it could fit that prophetic description in a spectacular way. We need to watch the situation closely.

Iran still has control over the Houthis. It can still use them to great effect, now in tandem with its own military and Islamist paramilitary closing other choke points like the Strait of Hormuz. Expect Iran to continue leveraging its ability to terrorize global shipping—and for Europe to ultimately strike back with overwhelming force.

IN OTHER NEWS

Gulf states look to Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed 10-year defense agreements with Qatar and Saudi Arabia during his visit to the Gulf states from Thursday through Sunday. Zelenskyy said a similar defense agreement would also be finalized with the United Arab Emirates. The Gulf states hope to benefit from Ukraine’s drone warfare technology, while Ukraine seeks to boost its supply of air defense missiles. These agreements show that the Gulf states are looking to diversify their partnerships from the United States, as prophesied.

Only one third of Iranian missiles destroyed? Reuters reported on Friday that only one out of every three Iranian missiles has been confirmed destroyed by U.S. intelligence services. It’s likely that another third has been at least partly damaged. This differs from President Trump’s narrative that Iran has “few rockets left.” When one of the war’s most straightforward and attainable aims appears to be unfulfilled, the Trumpet’s decades-long forecast that the U.S. has won its last war holds up to scrutiny.

Red carpet and ‘Allahu Akbar’ for Sharaa in Germany: Syria’s former top terrorist turned interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, arrived in Berlin yesterday for his first state visit to Germany. Syrian Muslims greeted him by exclaiming “Allahu Akbar,” which means “God is great” but is also used as a war cry in jihad, which Sharaa is all too familiar with. Germany’s president greeted him with a red carpet in the morning, and the chancellor met with him in the afternoon. Syria and Germany are reestablishing relations after Sharaa’s semireformed terrorist forces helped oust Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. Sharaa needs funds to rebuild Syria, and Germany wants to send back many of the 1.3 million Syrian refugees it has taken in. Bible prophecy reveals that these two nations will form a close alliance that will cause far greater terror than Sharaa ever did.

Israel temporarily closes Jerusalem holy sites: Israeli officials have closed several holy sites in Jerusalem, including the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and al-Aqsa Mosque, citing safety concerns due to Iranian strikes. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, was barred from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre yesterday, “the first time in centuries, the heads of the church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,” the patriarchate stated. The Jordanian government, which serves as the custodian of Muslim holy sites in the city, condemned the closure as a “flagrant violation of international law and historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem.” The closures have been partially lifted, but watch for the religious struggles over Jerusalem to become far more intense and violent.

Israel to vote on controversial death penalty law: Today, the Knesset will vote on a law that would significantly lower the threshold needed for capital punishment and force courts to sentence terrorists to either death or life imprisonment. Legislators are also considering a bill that would impose the death penalty on those convicted for crimes on Oct. 7, 2023. Currently, Israeli law allows the death penalty only for someone convicted of war crimes, and only two prisoners since its 1948 founding have received this sentence, the last instance occurring in 1962. The legislation has intensified Palestinian animosity against Israel, animosity that will ultimately explode into a violent uprising larger than October 7.

Iran hacked fbi director: Handala Hack, an Iran-linked hacker group, accessed fbi Director Kash Patel’s personal e-mail and leaked several photos and messages. Earlier this month, the group hacked American medical equipment manufacturer Stryker. This hack serves as a warning of the danger of cyberattacks, which Bible prophecy indicates will contribute to America’s demise.