Europe
Germany’s Defense Ministry presented its first national military strategy since the end of World War II on April 23. Since the end of the war, the nation’s military strategy has been incorporated into that of NATO. Defense News called the documents “the most comprehensive overhaul of Bundeswehr planning in decades.” Politico said it represents Germany converting “political will to rearm into a concrete military doctrine.”
The new strategy states that Germany plans to possess Europe’s strongest conventional military by 2039, which would be exactly one century after Germany started World War II by attacking Poland.
Titling the document “Responsibility for Europe” signals that Germany plans not only to operate independently of NATO but to lead Europe. The strategy focuses on Russia as Germany’s main adversary, but Bible prophecy reveals that, as in the last world war, Germany will first attack its former NATO allies: the United States and Britain. Learn more in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.
While European nations are strengthening their conventional military capabilities, France is expanding its nuclear strategic deterrent to cover other European nations. President Emmanuel Macron announced in March and April that France is working to guarantee nuclear defense of Germany, Poland and other countries. This represents another separation of Europe from NATO and the United States. Learn more in Gerald Flurry’s article “The First of the 10 Kings Unite Against America.”
A March 19 report by Danish broadcaster DR shows the military friction between Europe and the U.S. over Greenland could have escalated. It is now known that when troops from Denmark were reinforced by a small contingent of soldiers from France, Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden from January 14-17, some carried blood banks in the event of combat, and others brought explosives for possibly destroying infrastructure to complicate a potential U.S. invasion. Danish soldiers had orders to fight if necessary. Under Article 42 of the EU Treaty, if Denmark was actively fighting the U.S. and called for help from other EU nations, they would have been obligated to ally with it against America.
Britain’s government approved the sale of the Telegraph to German publishing giant Axel Springer on April 14. Despite assurances that news and editorial coverage will remain independent, this means in practice that the strongest British newspaper to warn about Germany’s renewed military ambitions will be under Germany’s sway. Read more in our article “A Warning to Britain Silenced?”
Middle East
Egypt’s economy has been hit especially hard by the Iran war. Egypt imports most of its natural gas from two countries: Israel and Qatar. Iran’s blockade prevents Qatar from exporting anything. And soon after the war started, Israel suspended the vast majority of its gas exports to Egypt. Gas flows only returned to prewar levels about a month of fighting. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the cost of importing energy doubled between January and March, to $2.5 billion. The government implemented a curfew forcing businesses to close at 9 p.m. on weekdays and 10 p.m. on weekends, and most employees are required to work one day per week from home. One commentator likened the night scene of the formerly bustling Cairo to Egypt’s plague of darkness in the book of Exodus.
Egypt’s unstable economy has suffered several economic shocks in recent years: covid-19 government lockdowns; wheat shortages due to Russia invading Ukraine; Houthis targeting merchant traffic and scaring ships away from the Suez Canal; Ethiopia damming the Nile River.
Egypt and Iran have been enemies for decades. The exception to this was when Egypt was ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood from 2011 to 2013. The Muslim Brotherhood has little power now, but, whether through the next economic crisis or other factors, the world will be stunned by the next Egyptian revolution. Daniel 11:40-43 show that it will ultimately be won by Iran-aligned Islamists.
Residents of Deir el-Balah in Gaza voted in municipal elections on April 25, as part of the Palestinian Authority’s wider municipal elections. This is the first time Gazans have voted for a government since 2006. Hamas won that election, then ousted the Fatah party and Palestinian Authority through street fighting, killing the wounded, executions and throwing people off buildings.
The PA controls much of the West Bank and is trying to return to Gazan politics with the support of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace—over the objections of Israel. Like Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is corrupt and actively undermining Israel’s security.
Prophecies like Zechariah 14:14, as explained in our free booklet Jerusalem in Prophecy, show Israel will soon be torn apart by Palestinian violence. The Board of Peace empowering the Palestinian Authority could lead to renewed conflict.
Israel will host the largest festival of sexual perversions ever held in the Middle East from June 1-5. The Pride Land Festival will host people in 15 hotels and beach complexes constructed on the shores of the Dead Sea. This is the area where the ancient city of Sodom once stood.
Genesis 18-19 detail that the sins of its inhabitants, specifically sexual perversions, led God to “[rain] down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah … out of the heavens” (Genesis 19:24; New International Version). To this day, the landscape resembles Mars, and the Dead Sea is inhospitable to life. The landscape of the area testifies to what God thinks when His people “declare their sin as Sodom” (Isaiah 3:9). Such blatant rebellion against God’s laws is one reason God is inflicting the nation with curses. Read Stephen Flurry’s article “Israel Celebrates Sodomy in Sodom.”
Asia
Russia plans to place a “nuclear antisatellite weapon” in space that would “hold at risk everyone’s satellites in low Earth orbit,” Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of United States Space Command, said in an interview posted on The General and the Journalist on April 15. Of roughly 10,500 active satellites in orbit today, more than 7,000 are American. Thousands of those are relied on by the U.S. military for reconnaissance, command, control, communications, surveillance, navigation and targeting.
Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has been sounding the alarm about the U.S. military’s excessive reliance on computer systems for more than 30 years. Based on biblical prophecies about the coming besiegement and destruction of the U.S., he has called this vulnerability America’s “Achilles’ heel.”
China is transforming yet another reef in a disputed part of the South China Sea into an island suitable for military installations, according to satellite imagery analysis published by the Wall Street Journal on April 1. Since construction began at the mostly submerged Antelope Reef in the Paracel Islands in October, some 1,490 acres have been reclaimed. The Chinese have built a helipad on the island as well as jetties, numerous buildings and what appears to be the foundation of a runway. A large dredged lagoon looks capable of berthing submarines and warships perhaps as large as aircraft carriers.
China continues to expand its sprawling network of military bases across the South China Sea, part of its illegal strategy to assert control over this vital maritime region. “China is being aggressive and provocative” and thereby challenging “seven decades of American naval dominance in the Pacific Rim,” Mr. Flurry wrote in July 2016. “This should alarm the world!” To understand the biblically prophetic implications of the alarming push, read his article “China Is Steering the World Toward War.”
South Korea, the world’s fifth-most powerful military, may be on the cusp of regaining full control over its forces, the Diplomat wrote on March 30. During the Korean War in the 1950s, South Korean authorities transferred operational control of their armed forces to the United Nations Command, under U.S. leadership, avoiding defeat and becoming an official U.S. ally. The U.S. maintained full control over South Korean forces.
But South Korea has since become an economic titan with a maturing military and an intensifying national desire for autonomy. In 1994, South Korea resumed control of its military during times of peace, and now, due largely to concerns about the reliability of U.S. security commitments, South Koreans increasingly want to retake control during wartime as well. “Self-reliant national defense is the most basic of basics amid the unstable international situation,” South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said in January. Recent polling shows that more than 70 percent of South Koreans wish to become more militarily autonomous instead of relying on the U.S.
Based on Bible prophecies about a massive alliance of Asian nations, which will almost certainly include the Koreas, the Trumpet expects the remaining alliance between the U.S. and Korea to soon dissolve.
Anglo-America
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported on April 15 that it plans to deport 1 million people in 2026 and 2027. The agency carried out 442,637 removals in 2025, about 171,000 more than in 2024 under Joe Biden. A 2018 Yale study estimated 16 to 29 million undocumented immigrants were already in the U.S., and millions more entered during the Biden years. Bible prophecy warns that “strangers” in the land will bring destruction and burn cities with fire (Deuteronomy 28:43, 52; Isaiah 1:7).
Despite these sobering prophecies, however, many U.S. Christians support illegal immigration. The Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue on Immigration in Washington, D.C., on March 24, brought together the National Association of Evangelicals and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishops conference opposes “indiscriminate mass deportation” of illegal immigrants. The National Association of Evangelicals has taken a more measured approach, stressing the rule of law and biblical calls to care for the vulnerable. The Catholic conference represents as much as 10 times the membership of the evangelical group. This dialogue will likely strengthen U.S. Catholic bishops’ political power.
The Trump administration continues to negotiate with Denmark for increased military access to Greenland, the New York Times reported on April 2, based on comments from Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, who leads North American Aerospace Defense Command. The U.S. currently operates one base in Greenland: Pituffik Space Base. The U.S. is seeking access to three more defense areas for airfields, ports and other operations. Greenland has become a major point of contention between the U.S. and Denmark, along with Europe. This contested landmass could be a major launchpad for the European invasion of the U.S. prophesied in Isaiah 10:5 and Jeremiah 8:16.
On March 24, Australia and the European Union announced the final details of a major trade deal that will remove nearly all tariffs between the two and will grant the EU more access to Australia’s critical minerals. The Bible prophesies that the end-time nations of Israel, which include Australia, will be betrayed and destroyed by a German-led Europe; so while Australians may think they are gaining an ally against China, they are providing their future conqueror with critical resources.
April 13, Canada’s ruling Liberal Party won three by-elections, giving it 174 seats in parliament and a working majority. The Liberals won two districts in Toronto and a narrow victory in a Montreal district that traditionally votes Bloc Québécois. Also, five members of parliament switched from other parties to the Liberals. This is the first time in Canadian history that a minority government has become a majority government in between elections. Prime Minister Mark Carney now faces much less resistance to his legislative agenda, which includes authoritarian measures and a foreign policy that aligns Canada with Communist China and Catholic Europe.