Yesterday, President Donald Trump said he wants to “get Cuba done” before leaving office. In a Hugh Hewitt interview, he said many people from Florida with Cuban heritage support changing the island nation’s Communist dictatorial regime, and one of them is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who would “love to do it.”

• Asked about whether Cubans could be freed using United States military force, Trump replied he would “certainly consider that.”

Earlier this year, the Trump administration authorized resale of Venezuelan oil to Cuban businesses—excluding the government and military—to ease fuel shortages, strengthen pragmatic Cubans, and continue weakening the regime and its Communist supporters.

• Cuba’s regime responded by expanding limited private-state partnerships, which facilitated fuel distribution but also preserved elements of regime control.

Meanwhile, U.S. midterm elections have empowered the president’s opponents and provided legislative avenues to challenge his Cuba policy.

• A resolution introduced in May by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine from Virginia would have forced the removal of U.S. forces near Cuba and required Congress to approve any blockade. A few Republicans joined Kaine and the Democrats, but Republicans stopped the bill from going to a vote.
• When Democrats gain control of both chambers on January 3, similar measures could be introduced and receive significantly more votes.

The late Herbert W. Armstrong forecast for decades the collapse of the Berlin Wall and German reunification based on Bible prophecies of a revived Holy Roman Empire of five Western and five Eastern European nations. Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has made related forecasts about Cuba based on its political and religious relationships with Europe and Catholicism.

• After the Vatican helped restore diplomatic relations between Cuba and the U.S. under Barack Obama in 2015, Mr. Flurry highlighted Bible prophecies of an economic siege of the U.S. by a revived Holy Roman Empire, asserting that the Catholic Church will prove to be a greater determining factor in Cuba’s relationship with the U.S. than the Communist Party of Cuba.

President Trump’s efforts to bring about regime change in Cuba could still produce a realignment away from communism and toward Catholicism. But America’s broken resolve will prevent him from neutralizing Cuba as a threat. Events now unfolding align with those long-standing biblical forecasts.