A vision from Martin Baron

I saw Central Europe from very high above, dark and black. In some places it was truly pitch black, for example at a spot where Berlin must have been. After some time I saw a huge golden sword slowly moving across the entire map.

Suddenly, very much like a cloth being pulled aside, the blackness was taken away. Underneath lay the land; I can only describe it as "naked". Immediately the land began slowly to turn red, similar to how a graze begins to bleed or fabric slowly soaks up red dye, until the entire land lay completely blood-red.

I heard the word: "Where sin became mighty, there grace became much mightier!" Then the red land slowly transformed into shining gold.

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The German Flag – a Prophetic Symbol

Flags have held the greatest significance since the earliest times. Early on they became a symbol expressing the aspirations, the loyalty, the ideals and the longing of the people of a nation.

The German flag is the only national flag in the world that has gold as a full field (as a color), not just as a small decorative element. It has no name (such as "Union Jack", "Dannebrog" and others), but is simply called "Black–Red–Gold". This is a prophetic naming that shows the sequence of what God has planned for this nation:

• Black = guilt, national sin, national failure, curse for the whole world, negative realm
• Red = blood of Jesus, blotting out of sin, turning of the nation to God
• Gold = glory, Kingdom of God, blessing for the whole world

On the origin of the German flag:

The colors of the German flag go back to the uniform of the "Lützow Free Corps", a volunteer corps that took the field in the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon in 1813–15.

They were volunteers who fought, in orderly fashion and under clear military leadership and authority (King Frederick William III of Prussia), against the superior force of the hostile and unlawful oppressor.

Through the Jena Burschenschaft, an association of students, many of whom had served in the corps, the flag became a symbol of national unity at a time when Germany was completely fragmented by the patchwork of small states.

In 1848, when the first freely elected German National Assembly convened in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt, it was decided that Black–Red–Gold should be the flag of a future German state.

The emerging German Empire, however, introduced a different flag: Black–White–Red. The First World War was fought under this flag.

After the First World War and the fall of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic (1919–33) adopted Black–Red–Gold as its flag, until it was replaced by the Nazis' swastika flag (again in Black–White–Red). The Second World War was fought under this flag.

In 1949, a full 100 years after the decision of the German National Assembly, interestingly both of the emerging German states chose the same flag as their national flag. The GDR merely added a communist emblem set in the middle (hammer and compass within a wreath of grain).