You may be right, TheophilusOne -- Trump seems to be going way overboard in many respects.
He thinks he can put tariffs on other countries, but gets really upset when other countries place tariffs on him in retaliation.
Now Trump is condemning Europe! On his
truth page "The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States, has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky," Trump wrote. "If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S."
This is not yet the "great spiritual deception" all this is still building up to it.
What will this tariff war do to the world?
?? chaos ??
What the papacy publicly condones or condemns is deceptive. They have things so organized so they can maneuver things but in the end are able to say "it wasn't us".
Take the case of Hitler, he came on the scene as one who would make Germany great again. He instituted quite a few reforms that seemed morally and economically right and good. Yet many Catholic people, during those early years, saw the signs of danger and were raising voices of warning, but a Reichs konkordat signed July 20,1933 between the soon to be pope Pucelli, and Hitler's natzi party obligated Catholics to be submissive and not get involved in opposing the rising party. Thus Catholic critics and Catholic groups, some of which were quite powerful, fell silent, and Hitler pursued his agenda.
When, in later years the papacy was asked why they didn't do something? The claim was that they were against it, but they were "helpless". Where did the papacy really stand back then, is quite a study in itself. Remember, to spiritually dominate the world is a very real ambition of the papacy. They saw Hitler as a political unifying force which they had hoped would enlarge their own influence. Hitler had the thirst and ambition to control the world, the papacy would ride on his back and spiritually control the world, BUT It rather seriously back fired back then.
The second beast of Revelation, however, is not the papacy, it is not a European nation, it is the USA, which will cause the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast (cause the world to pay homage to the doctrines of the papacy, and grant the papacy the ultimate spiritual power they have long felt was their due), his deadly wound healed.
But first this second beast seeks to get the "earth and them which dwell therein" to yield to his "power". Right now, the nations aren't yet ready to yield.
The USA will do better than Hitler. They will achieve what Hitler only dreamed about. He had advanced air power, but the USA will have miracle working power. First get the world crying for bread and some kind of economic security. (That's what is being disrupted now if this tariff war escalates into serious implementation) When people are desperate they usually seek to align with, and obey any power that offers a tangible solution. And prophecy says the tool the USA will use is economic. Ability to buy and sell.
But maybe the USA president will first bring a brief period of prosperity to the USA. Prophecy also says, "when they cry peace and safety, sudden destruction comes." (1 Thess 5:3) It also says they will be eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, when sudden destruction comes.(Matt. 24:38-39) But maybe all that prosperity and "peace and safety" is already history, and the world is teetering
about to take its last plunge?
Of course there is much we don't know --
There may be more pendulum swings.
But it could all wrap up very quickly as well.
It's all under God's control.
And yes, the most important aspect is to be prepared. And the only real preparation is to first make our own connection with God secure and secondly we need to tell our friends and neighbors and share GOD'S awesome solution.
This gospel shall be preached in all the world and then the end will come.
