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The Phoenix
In the opera Parsifal, Richard Wagner wrote, “By the power of that stone the phoenix burns to ashes, but the ashes give him life again. Thus does the phoenix molt and change its plumage, which afterward is bright and shining and as lovely as before.” Just as that mythological bird, the Germany once in ashes has reappeared and is heading the powerful consortium of nations called the European Union.
Now only the fourth statement Mr. Armstrong made is still waiting to happen. That statement was, “a successor to Hitler will emerge, [and] gain control of this power….” That man is probably somewhere on the political scene right now!
General Stuelpnagel stated, “In the NEXT WORLD WAR…the same mistake should not be made. The PRINCIPAL ADVERSARY will be THE UNITED STATES, and the entire effort must be concentrated against this country from the beginning…. Our defeat in the present war need not be considered except as an incident in the triumphal march of Germany TOWARD CONQUEST OF THE WORLD”—Deutschland über alles! (Correspondence Course, lesson 3).
That march has begun. On May 26, 1998, German officer cadets took part in unprecedented training exercises with the Israeli army. Writing about this historic event, BBC Middle East correspondent Lyse Doucet said, “For the German soldiers these exercises are a valuable opportunity for a peace-time army to train with a force engaged in war.”
In the same BBC report, Christian Muth, of the German Army, was reported as saying, “The point of coming here is not to overcome the past, because you can’t overcome something that’s already happened. The point of coming here is to show that we are a new generation—that we are fully aware of the past and will prevent it from happening again.”
The German Army does not fully realize its future role in world affairs at this time. But we will soon learn that when its fighting forces say, “We are fully aware of the past and will prevent it from happening again,” it means they remember the defeat of past wars, and why. They will not be defeated next time!
Hitler revealed the carefully laid German military plan to rule the world in his thesis Mein Kampf. He said Germany must FIRST DEFEAT THE WEST in order to have a free hand for the Drang nach Osten—the march toward the EAST.
As God revealed to Mr. Armstrong, after losing World War II the Nazis went underground. The fall of the Berlin Wall has allowed Germany to reappear even stronger than before. It will continue to grow into the most powerful economic and military machine this world has ever seen—the last revival of the Holy Roman Empire. A successor to Hitler is about to appear. Then, linked with a future false prophet, this power, composed of ten nations—referred to in Scripture as “the beast”—will plunge this world into the most horrific global genocide ever witnessed by mankind.
Then the world will know that a prophet has been among them.

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