New Direction for Germany.

The winds of change are blowing in Germany. “Since the end of World War II, Germany has pursued a relatively tame foreign policy. But over the past week, Berlin appeared to have acknowledged the need for a fairly dramatic change. German leaders… have called for a new framework that contravenes the restraint Germany has practiced for so long. They want Germany to assume a greater international role by becoming more involved outside its borders politically and militarily… As NATO continues to fray and the challenges posed by an increasingly volatile Russia loom, Germany seems to be taking the first step back into establishing a new national and regional security framework… Berlin believes that holding the European Union together requires adding another dimension that it heretofore has withheld in its dealing with the bloc: military-political relations” (Geopolitical Weekly, February 4, 2014).

Bible prophecy indicates that at the end of the age, God will use the Assyrian-descended peoples (the Germans) as the “rod of His anger” against the Israelite-descended peoples (Isaiah 10:1-11, 24-25). This prophecy was written after Assyria had taken the ancient House of Israel into captivity—thus the prophecy is intended for the latter days. As the EU continues to reorganize, Germany will take a more dominant role to hold Europe together. For more on this significant German transformation, read our insightful article entitled, “Resurgent Germany: A Fourth Reich?”