Lessons From Two State Elections in Germany

Germany’s future seems more uncertain than ever after state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday. But these results indicate where Germany is heading—and it aligns with Bible prophecy’s view, which is certain.

The fringe is mainstream: The far-right party Alternative für Deutschland won the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2 percent, and the far-left party won in Berlin with 25.7 percent.

• The Christian Democratic Union (Chancellor Merz’s party), which has ruled various German states since 1948, failed to reach the necessary 5 percent to hold a single legislative seat in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Jew-hatred wins elections: Die Linke (The Left) hosted a rapper at an election campaign in August in Berlin’s Neukölln district who propagated the lines “Yalla yalla intifada” and “Death to the idf,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces. At the Left’s election party in Neukölln, a party member was photographed alongside Ibrahim Ibrahim, the head of a pro-Palestinian organization designated as a terrorist organization by the EU and the U.S.

• Israeli ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor warned today that, for Berlin’s Jewish community, the party’s election win poses an “immediate existential threat.”

Personalities matter: In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Social Democrats won 35.5 percent and will likely form a coalition government, despite the fact that AfD won 3 percent more. The party’s success was almost solely due to lead candidate Manuela Schwesig, who even omitted her party logo from some campaign posters.

Why Merz survives: As political commentator and former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg put it in his podcast Land in Sicht today: “What I think is really keeping things stable right now is the fact that nobody wants this [unpleasant] job at the moment.”

• What could help Chancellor Merz even more would be a foreign political crisis such as a Russian invasion of nato territory. Guttenberg noted that while one cannot count on this, such a crisis would play to Merz’s strengths.

Reforms are unpopular: Merz and his reform policies have been blamed for his party’s bad results. But he insists that the reforms to income tax, the pension system and the bureaucracy must continue. The biggest challenge is that his coalition partner is threatening to rebel, which would leave Germany ungovernable.

These lessons say a lot about the nation’s future. Germany needs charismatic leadership that can push through unpopular reforms. It also needs a gigantic crisis that makes the current issues appear insignificant. As Mr. Flurry recently wrote:

In a crisis, Germany’s elites may decide there is no time to appoint someone democratically—they could step in and select a leader quickly. But this man will hijack the whole alliance, and it will turn out very differently from what a lot of people want it to be.

This man is prophesied to rise out of the current crisis and hijack Europe, as Mr. Flurry explained in “After Trump’s Victory, Watch Germany.”