Why Is Germany Being Cursed?

Over the last two months, Europe has been plagued by unusual heat, drought and wildfires, contributing to thousands of “excess deaths,” mainly of the elderly. Rivers have dried up, vegetation has turned brown, and wildfires have devastated hundreds of thousands of acres.

Germany has been hit especially hard by the heat wave and drought, putting additional pressure on the economy, which has not yet recovered from the pandemic lockdowns. The country has also been hit by the energy crisis resulting from Russia’s war on Ukraine and Iran’s attacks on sea lanes.

A nation contending with so many crises at once must consider the path it is on. This severe drought could help it understand the root cause of its many crises.

The low riverbeds have exposed the relics of past wars that Germany started: sunken warships, bombs and other military hardware. This should remind Germany of its bloody past and serve as a warning against repeating it. However, Germany is once again rebuilding its military power.

Throughout the Bible, God shows that He uses so-called natural disasters to punish nations. Examples include the Flood (Genesis 7), the 10 plagues against Egypt (Exodus 7-12) and the three-year famine during the rule of King David as punishment for Saul breaking a promise to the Gibeonites. There are also prophecies of God using weather curses to punish nations’ disobedience in the future (Zechariah 14:17-18).

There are even specific Bible prophecies that God will use weather disasters to punish Germany.

Germany Cursed?

More than 25,000 people across Europe have died this year in relation to the summer heat wave, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Despite having only a sixth of the European Union’s population, in Germany, by the end of July, around 12,500 people had died in connection to the high temperatures, according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute. That’s higher than any other year in the past decade and more than double the estimated cases in France. Germany’s previous high was in 2018, with approximately 8,900 heat-related deaths.

It’s important to note that these deaths are not directly attributable to the heat. Instead, these are “excess deaths”—25,000 more people died this summer than expected based on historic averages. Use of these figures is controversial, because they generally give wildly higher figures than tallying up causes of death. They can be influenced by all kinds of factors; for example, hotter weather means more people traveling to enjoy it. A higher number of cars on the road pushes up the number of fatal accidents. These extra fatalities are then counted as “heat-related” deaths, though the weather isn’t a primary cause.

In this case, though, the figures are widely reported because they serve the approved narrative. The media and government use climate change as an excuse for massive socialist policies. Hot summers suit this narrative, so they are dramatized as much as possible. Meanwhile, excess death figures due to the cold in winter are rarely discussed.

Yet even while looking at this story on alert for the propaganda, this summer has been extreme.

The drought is also affecting Germany’s landscape. The Rhine, the lifeblood of German industry, has fallen to its lowest level since 1880, when record-keeping began. In some areas, the river is just 6 inches deep. Shipping around Kaub was completely halted last week.

Transport ships able to sail down the Rhine are forced to carry lighter loads. Ships normally able to carry 3,000 tons carry 300 now. That necessitates more trips, more fuel consumption and reduced productivity at a time when the German economy sorely needs it. In May, the economy’s growth prospects were slashed in half to 0.5 percent for the year due primarily to the United States-Iran war.

For every month the Rhine is at a critical low, German industrial output falls by 1 percent, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said in 2023. Nearly 300 million tons a year transit the river to Germany’s most important industrial cities, such as Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Cologne. Roughly 80 percent of Germany’s domestic water traffic travels it, accounting for 4 percent of all trade transport in the country.

Deutsche Welle reported on August 10 that, in many cases, carriers have limited their Rhine shipments to one fifth of previous levels. The government has been forced to suspend its ban on Sunday truck driving to compensate for reduced Rhine traffic.

It might get worse. Historically, the Rhine reaches its lowest levels in September and October.

Can the Rhine’s recession be a clue about why Germany is being cursed with such events?

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry writes in Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany, “God wants this world to learn that He controls nature. Many natural disasters are anything but natural.”

The Ruhr region, which in past wars has supplied Germany with much of its steel for tanks and aircraft, relies on the river to transport materials between cities.

• Thyssenkrupp’s Duisburg steel factory has had to reduce production. Thyssenkrupp was a major supplier of the Third Reich’s war machine and is a major supplier, albeit not to the same extent, to the rising war machine today.
• Salzgitter, another major steel producer, has also been affected, along with chemical company basf—a corporate descendant of IG Farben, which was responsible for the Third Reich’s chemical weapons.
• Volkswagen, which has historically produced weapons for the German military and is considering doing so again, procures some of its steel from Thyssenkrupp and Salzgitter and thus might also be affected.

The last time the Rhine dried to critical levels was the summer of 2022, the year Russia invaded Ukraine while Germany blocked sanctions on Russia and military aid to Ukraine. It was also the year that Germany announced its drastic militarization plans. 2022 was the year that the current push for Germany’s large-scale remilitarization began.

In Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany, Mr. Flurry explains that God wants Germany to repent of its militaristic mindset. While Bible prophecy shows that God can and will use Germany’s military power to fulfill His will, His chief and primary desire is for the German people to repent. The curses that Germany faces need to be seen in that context.

In Nahum 3:1, God says, “Woe to the bloody city,” referring to Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Assyrians, the forefathers of the modern-day Germans. Nahum reveals that God controls the storms and clouds, and He is the one who “dries up all the rivers” (Nahum 1:3-4).

Through the book of Nahum, God is reaching out to the modern Germans, saying: I am the one drying up your rivers. I can humble you, and I can make you prosper. Remember your bloody history and repent before you repeat it!

These scriptures should get the German people’s attention. They show that God is in charge of the weather, and He can solve all of our problems if we turn to Him. But instead of seeing God behind these weather curses, Germany blames climate change and seeks to revive its bloody past.

If Germany continues down this path, these curses will lead to a time when God “will shake the pillars of the Earth in Germany,” as Mr. Flurry warns.

Worse to Come

Temperatures are rising throughout the world, and wildfires are resulting. This is because all nations are under a curse for disobedience. The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom are experiencing rising temperatures and earthquakes because they have rejected God’s laws and their history with God (for more information, read The United States and Britain in Prophecy).

Germany, however, is being cursed for worshiping its military might and lusting for blood. In Nahum 2:13, God prophesies that He will punish Germany: “Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.”

God is right now warning the German people not to repeat their bloody history. The Bible reveals that if they reject God’s calls for repentance, they will end up trusting a man who will lead them to commit terrible atrocities. God will then use this militaristic Germany to punish the modern descendants of Israel (mainly America and the British Commonwealth) for their disobedience. In this context, He calls Germany “the rod of mine anger” (Isaiah 10:5).

God inspired Isaiah to write in verse 15: “Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should up itself, as if it were no wood.”

The March 1962 Plain Truth states:

God explains here that despite the fact that He has used Assyria to punish Israel, Assyria is also rebellious against His law and government, His way, and since it will magnify itself against the very God of creation, as Daniel 11:36 and 37 explain, God will have to punish it for this!

Germany could be spared this punishment if it would heed God’s correction today. God never punishes before first sending a warning.

If Germany doesn’t heed this warning, God will use the floods of an Asian army to correct and punish it (Nahum 2). In Revelation 16:12, the Bible prophesies that a different river will be dried up: the Euphrates. It will be dried up to allow a 200 million-man army from Asia, under the leadership of a Russian strongman, to gather against German forces in the valley of Megiddo (Revelation 16:16).

None would survive if Christ did not intervene (Matthew 24:22).

That’s where Germany’s militarization is leading: If Germany puts its trust in its military might, it will die by superior military might. But God wants Germany and the whole world to look to Him. Today’s weather curses are a warning to Germany, and the Europe it’s leading, of the carnage to come.

Yet there is hope for the Germans. Their ancient forebears, the Assyrians, are the only nation recorded in the Bible to have repented and escaped what would have been sure destruction, as you can read in the book of Jonah.

In Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany, Mr. Flurry explains these prophecies in detail. By studying them, we can get to know God and His plan for mankind.