When a Nation Forgets God-Part 3

The political left in the West is attacking the Christian right, conservatives and traditionalists unlike any time in World history, and these attacks are likely to escalate over the next few years. If one studies the Nazi press, the electronic media and present social media, the parallels are ominous.

The Nazi controlled the media, radios, movies and entertainment. Newspapers in Germany were being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials. Any well thinking person can tell the uniformity of the information we are getting from all the big news networks. Don says, “the Propaganda Ministry must be alive and well somewhere in America and the West today under the watchful care of the Establishment.”

Tom Chivers of the Daily Telegraph noted that the ancient traditions of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were bloody silly dances and Nazi propaganda. He noted that the Olympic torch procession was in fact invented by the Nazis and has nothing to do with ancient Greece. The notorious Olympic rings signal was also created by the Nazis. Vulgar and sexual performances from all kinds of celebrities have led to the path of cultural degradation in the West that many of us don’t care anymore.

Aldous Huxley a British Socialist and one England’s ruling elite predicted that “sex will be encouraged from early childhood and recreational sex will be an integral part of society and a social activity, rather than a means of reproduction. The few women who can reproduce will be conditioned to use birth control, even wearing a ‘Malthusian belt’ that resembles a cartridge and holds ‘the regulation supply of contraceptives as a popular fashion accessory.”

People will be kept too preoccupied with work and trivial affairs to think or complain. Marriage, natural birth, parenthood, and pregnancy will be considered too obscene to be mentioned in casual conversation. Pornography and the official promotion of every kind of sexual perversions will be the new normal that will serve a political purpose. He wrote:

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensate by increasing. And the dictator (or the elite) will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to day dream under the influence of dope, movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Control of Education and Schools. History tells us that laws making education in public schools compulsory have been found in the most totalitarian regimes where state-sponsored indoctrination was a major goal of the educational system. One of Hitler’s first legislative acts on taking office was to establish the Reich Ministry of Education and give it the control of all schools, including the private schools.

Prior to 1933 the German public schools had been under the jurisdiction of the local authorities and the universities under that of the individual states. Now all were brought under iron rule of the Reich Minister of Education. It is important to remember that the law was on Hitler’s side. He told the parents,

Your child belongs to us already…who are you? You will pass on. Your descendants now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.

Today those who are hostile toward Christianity are the ones in positions of leadership in the education sector. They know all too well what they have accomplished by capturing the minds of the youth for many generations, and they almost rejoice in their victory. Children attend school five days a week and they are exposed to books, games, and movies that all present values opposed to what Christian parents try to instil in them.

There is no denial that the state is becoming increasingly hostile to Christian schools and home schools, (see examples here, here and here), but regardless of the evidence that the state school system is extremely anti-Christian, most Christians, churches, and pastors continue to defend the system.

In fact, very few church leaders recognize that parents have a right to home school their children or that there is any scriptural basis for homeschooling or starting Christian schools. Even if Christians knew what was really going on, do we really care? Most of us draw our conclusions from what the herd deems to be acceptable. We have a dependence on something that appears to be free.

Alliance with Corporations. William Shirer, Anthony Sutton, Edwin Black and many others have written extensively about the incredible financial and logistical support Hitler and the Nazis received from Germany’s industrial giants and corporate leaders during Hitler’s rise to power and throughout his reign of terror.

Nazi Germany was in fact a fascist regime with an unholy alliance between big business and the socialist government. This is significant because that is exactly what is happening in America and most of the West today—big business and the government are collaborating to move America and the rest of the world into the New World Order.

Reichstag Fire and the Beginning of the Nazi Dictatorship. Virtually all historians of the period including William Shirer agree that the burning of the Reichstag which was blamed on the communists by the Nazis was the event which signaled the beginning of Nazi dictatorship.

That same year Hitler formed the Gestapo, justifying it to the German people as necessary to maintain “homeland security” in a speech in which he declared:

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation, we must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

The public were panicked by the Nazi propaganda machine and stampeded into handling dictatorial power to Hitler and the Nazis. This is what Don McAlvany had to say about the Reichstag fire when he wrote his book about 16 years ago before 9/11:

There could be very important lessons in the Reichstag fire for Americans in the wake of terrorist attacks. If Congress supported by the public are stampeded by some crisis or catastrophe real or staged into passing a host of counter-terrorism, gun control, people-control initiatives, America could become a Nazi-style police state (with most of our Bill of Rights freedoms cancelled) in all the name of fighting terrorism.

Sounds familiar!

Hegel said, “We learn from history, we learn nothing from history.” And Santayana said: “Those who do not learn from the lessons of history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.” What do we learn from this? The lesson is regardless of who planned and executed the fire, Hitler and the Nazis took advantage of the situation and passed all kinds of laws at the expense of the people’s freedom and civil rights.

Douglass Reed, who was a British reporter, writing about the Burning of Reichstag wrote:

When Germany awoke; a man’s home was no longer his castle. He could be seized by private individuals, could claim no protection from the police, could be indefinitely detained without preferment of charge, his property could be seized, his verbal and written communications overheard and perused; he no longer had the right to foregather with his fellow countrymen; and his newspapers might no longer freely express their opinions.

The Reichstag fire produced exactly the result that Hitler had anticipated. The Germany of the Weimar Constitution went up in flames, and from the ashes like the phoenix rose the Third Reich.

Surveillance System. Totalitarian regimes want total control and tracking of their citizens. Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich set up a control system that tracked the entire population using index cards. All this was done with the help of IBM produced punch cards, sorted by IBM machines which were leased to the Nazis. These were used to confiscate their property, to be put into concentration camps where they had to receive tattoos, to be deported and finally their extermination.

Today the people who are controlling the system are desperate to know everything about their fellow human beings, not because they think we are all dangerous, but because they are interested in power, and they will do anything to attain that power. Using RFID even in clothes would make easier to get their utopian dream of controlling other people.

In 2012, “60 Second Idea,” in association with the BBC, promoted the ideas of science fiction writer and Global warming expert Elizabeth Moon who believes that if she were “an empress of the Universe” she would insist on every individual having a unique ID permanently attached- bar-code if you will; an implanted chip to provide an easy, fast inexpensive way to identify individuals:

Point the scanner at someone and there it is. Anonymity would be impossible as would mistaken identity making it easier to place responsibility accurately, not only in war but also in non-combat situations far from the war.

John W. Whitehead calls it a matrix that has “enslaved us by technology and the Internet of things” and no one seems to bother:

The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Separation of Government from its People and from each other: This is how Milton Mayer described it his book, They thought they were free:

What no one seemed to notice…. The ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and its people…..What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with the Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would have otherwise have worried about it.

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

Today, whether we realize it or not technology has divided and separated us from each other. Like a frog in boiling water, our society’s unhealthy obsession with television, computers and smart phones has dumbed us down that the goose is cooked and the frog is boiled and we don’t seem to care. It is been said by one historian that people are “willfully ignorant.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is quoted in Persecution: It Will Never Happen Here as saying:

Are we prepared to learn from the past? Are people living in freedom able to learn from those living in need? Can the lesson they have learned be taught to the free world? Yes it can, but who wants to learn? Our proud skyscrapers point heaven ward and they say: it will never happen here. But it will happen…. Tragically the free West will only believe it when it is no longer free. To quote a Russian proverb, “When it happens you will know it is true, but then it too late.”

Conclusion

Unless the Church embraces the cross and seeks God for a revival or Great Awakening, the conditions that gave rise to Nazi Germany are unravelling before our eyes. The present state of decline in the spiritual, economic, political, financial, cultural, and social problems being experienced by America, Europe and other nations is due to one fact: We have forgotten God and His commandments. The moment we began ignoring God and allowing society to be secularized, we lost our freedoms.

Many groups have been warning us about certain groups, who have been announcing their intentions to turn this world into a godless Communist New World Order and impose a communist all-powerful totalitarian dictatorial government on an enslaved humanity. We thought those that were warning us were conspiracy theorists.

All of those Christians who suffered persecution under the Nazis and the communists have been warning that they see the signs of a similar great persecution in the West. The only hope we have is to repent and ask God to send a revival or Great Awakening.

At the same time the Germany people should not be manipulated into paying a guilt offering for all the atrocities that were done by their leaders. Other prophets believe that God has a special purpose for Germany which is to bring a spiritual awakening to all of Europe. Yes, Germany just like other nations will fulfil a higher purpose in the end times and the Lord Jesus will be glorified.

In the meantime, we are all going to humble ourselves before God and plead His mercy, grace and forgiveness. Every believer should be on his knees before God asking Him to have mercy on our respective nations and to pour out His Spirit as He promised.

The devil using human agents is going to take advantage of all the chaos that is going on in Europe against the Jewish people, the nation of Israel, the believers in United States, United Kingdom and the rest of the world. As Christians we have to prepare for it. I think a call to repentance as recorded by the prophet Zephaniah 2:1-3 applies to all of us now:

The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth the curse upon you, before the time to repent is gone like the drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the Lord comes upon you!

Seek the Lord inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life, all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility inquire for them, require them as vital. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.

God is a God of mercy and a God of judgment. The judgment punishes the sin, while mercy saves we the sinners. The Word of Lord says:

Yes, in the way of Your judgments, O LORD, we have waited for You; The desire of our soul is for Your name. And for the remembrance of You. With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness (Isaiah 26:8-9).

Just like there was still time for the people to repent when the Babylonians would come and destroy Jerusalem, there is also still time for us to humble ourselves so that we can be hidden from this impending distress. How can God’s people be protected? The Bible gives us answer:

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon (Isaiah 55: 6-7).