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\"\"Pastor Martin Niemoller (pictured left) was one of the members of what had become the Confessing Church during the Nazi German deception. He had been a U-boat captain during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross for his bravery.<\/p>\n

He had initially welcomed the coming to power of the Nazis in 1933, hailing them as the heroes who would restore the dignity of Germany, get rid of the communists, and restore moral order.<\/p>\n

Niemoller thought that the Nazi victory would bring about a \u201cnational revival\u201d for which he himself had fought and prayed for a long time. But this didn\u2019t happen and before long he found out that he too had been deceived. Niemoller met Bonhoeffer and both began to play an important role in the church struggle against the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n

When Hitler heard that there might be a church division because some pastors objected to his agenda, he summoned German church leaders to his office to rebuke them for inadequately supporting his programs. Hitler began by reproaching his guests, with a long vehement denunciation about how he was misunderstood. He told them he wanted Peace between Church and State and they were obstructing him and sabotaging his efforts to achieve it.<\/p>\n

When the time came for those who were in the meeting to respond, Pastor Niemoller explained that he was concerned only for the welfare of the church and of the German people. Hitler responded angrily by saying \u201cYou confine yourself to the Church. I\u2019ll take care of the German people.\u201d Niemoller replied, \u201c<\/p>\n

You said that \u2018I will take care of the German people.\u2019 But we too, as Christians and churchmen, have a responsibility toward the German people. That responsibility was entrusted to us by God, and neither you nor anyone in this world has the power to take it from us<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During the months and years following, he was closely watched by secret police. On June 27, 1937, Niemoller preached his last sermon in the Third Reich knowing that he was about to be arrested:<\/p>\n

We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man\u2019s behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.\u201dHe further said \u201cChristianity in Germany bears a greater responsibility before God than the National Socialist, the SS, and the Gestapo.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was soon arrested and placed in solitary confinement. \u00a0The interrogation from police was easier for Niemoller to bear than some of the criticism he received from his colleagues for his words to Hitler. Clearly, the majority of the pastors had adopted an attitude of safety first. <\/span><\/p>\n

More than two thousand pastors who had stood with Niemoller and Bonheoffer withdrew their support. They believed that making concessions with the Fuhrer would be the best strategy; they thought that if they remained silent they could live with Hitler\u2019s intrusion into church affairs and his political policies. As the Lord Jesus says \u201cFor whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel\u2019s will save it. (Mark 8:35)<\/span><\/p>\n

In his classic book, Dr Erwin Lutzer<\/span><\/a> says ‘the majority of the people, including the professing Christians, no longer believed that Christianity was worth suffering for, much less dying for. They were willing to substitute Mein Kampf for the Bible in exchange for jobs and the greater glory of Germany’. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet those who saved their lives lost them, and those who lost their lives saved them. What might have happened if all the church had condemned Nazism with one unified voice? In a sermon in 1945, Niemoller gave what could be the kind of epilogue on the German church struggle. He said:<\/p>\n

There were in 1933 and in the following years here in Germany 14,000 Evangelical pastors and nearly as many parishes\u2026 if at the beginning of the Jewish persecutions we had seen that it was the Lord Jesus Christ who was being persecuted, struck down and slain \u201cin the least of these our brethren, \u201cif we had been loyal to Him and confessed Him, for all I know God would have stood by us, and then the whole sequence of events would have taken a different course. And if we had been ready to go with Him to death, the number of victims would have been only some ten thousand.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Niemoller has a word for us who live in the West. He was of course thinking of his own church and people of Germany when he spoke these words, but they are for us as well. <\/span>Early in 1934, Martin Niemoller at his church in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem had prophetically declared God\u2019s purpose in the trials that faced the German church. He said that:<\/span><\/p>\n

We have all of us \u2013the whole Church and the whole community—we\u2019ve been thrown into the Tempter\u2019s sieve, and he is shaking and the wind is blowing, and it must now become manifest whether we are wheat or chaff! Verily, a time of sifting has come upon us, and even the most indolent and peaceful person among us must see that the calm of a meditative Christianity is at an end\u2026.It is now springtime for the hopeful and expectant Christian church\u2014it is testing time, and God is giving Satan a free hand, so he may shake us up and so that it may be seen what manner of men we are!.. Satan swings his sieve and Christianity is thrown hither and thither; and he who is not ready to suffer, he who called himself a Christian only because he thereby hoped to gain something good for his race and his nation is blown away by the wind of time.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes God is separating the wheat and the chaff! This is no time to pout but to accept our role as Christians in this society with joy and to prove our love for Christ and the Gospel. Make no mistake about it, without a Great Awakening both spiritually and politically, history is repeating itself on a far larger scale.<\/p>\n

Andrew Torba the head of Gab social-media writing on his website<\/a><\/span> has made a dire prediction for Christians in America and around the world, saying in the coming days believers in Jesus won’t be able to get jobs, use money, open bank accounts, or travel by airplane, among other routine activities:<\/p>\n

On December 6th\u00a0Twitter banned thousands of accounts<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>in their latest purge of dissenting thoughts on the doomed and failing platform. As a result Gab.com saw thousands of new sign ups per hour and our traffic skyrocketed. When Twitter Purges, Gab Surges. While this is great news for the Gab community, it\u2019s not great news for Christians. In fact, it\u2019s a sign of what is soon to come which will be much worse than losing your Twitter account.<\/p>\n

Something that isn\u2019t being said about the latest Twitter Purge is that it was almost exclusively targeted at young, White, Christian men. Twitter flipped a switch and made thousands of young Christians disappear from one of the world\u2019s top communication systems. No longer can they share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations on a platform where much of the world communicates daily. That\u2019s a big problem, but that is only the surface level of what Christians have coming.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to help Christians see the bigger picture for a long time about the reality of our situation. As I\u2019ve already written the\u00a0time for lukewarm Christianity is over<\/a><\/span>. We must prepare ourselves for the inevitable persecution that is to come. We must not fear for we have a sovereign God who is in control. He has blessed us with the gifts to create, to build, and to reform.<\/p>\n

If these demons in Silicon Valley have their way the only context that the name \u201cJesus Christ\u201d will appear on the internet is to be mocked or scorned, just like He is in the rest of \u201cpopular culture.\u201d We can\u2019t let that happen. We can\u2019t let our brothers and sisters be persecuted, silenced, demonized, and destroyed by these wicked people. Especially not our young people who are the future of Christendom.<\/p>\n

I have long seen where things are headed for the simple reason that I\u2019ve experienced it first hand myself. Soon it won\u2019t just be Twitter. If you\u2019re a Christian you won\u2019t be able to open a bank account. You won\u2019t be able to host a website on the internet. You won\u2019t be able to send emails. You won\u2019t be able to access the app stores. You won\u2019t be able to transact with money online, or off. You won\u2019t be able to get a job. You won\u2019t be able to fly in an airplane. This is coming for us all, and it\u2019s already happening to many of us right now.<\/p>\n

Every day I wake up and work 18 hour days to build infrastructure for our future and bring glory to God because I know for certain that\u00a0the one thing the Oligarch Regime fears is Jesus Christ<\/a>.<\/span> He is the only one who can stop them. Not any politician. Not some billionaire. Not me. Only Jesus.<\/p>\n

We can, must, and will lay the foundation of a new civilization, an unapologetically Christian civilization. A\u00a0parallel Christian economy<\/a><\/span>. Christ is our King right now and it\u2019s about time that we start acting like it. We need to stop sitting around moping and being stepped on by the Enemy.<\/p>\n

God has given us the tools and the talents to take dominion in this world in His name and make disciples of all nations as we have been commanded. We can\u2019t do that if the Enemy controls the media, the banks, the governments, the tech companies, and so much more.<\/p>\n

Jesus did not ascend into heaven and say \u201csee you later guys, uhh just sit around and let the world trample all over you until I get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

He left us a set of very clear instructions.<\/p>\n

And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying,\u00a0All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth<\/strong>. Go ye therefore<\/strong>, and\u00a0teach all nations<\/strong>, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo,\u00a0I am with you always<\/strong>, even unto the end of the world. Amen (Matthew 28-18-20).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jesus has ALL power, not just in Heaven, but here on earth as well. He told us very clearly to teach and baptize ALL nations. He reminded us that He is with us ALWAYS.<\/p>\n

Gab is essential if we want to be able to share the Gospel on the internet and have fellowship with one another across the world. It all starts with true free speech. If you don\u2019t have true free speech the Gospel can\u2019t be shared. Period.<\/p>\n

It will, and already is, being labeled \u201canti-semitic hate speech\u201d and banned on Big Tech platforms and\u00a0even those who claim to be \u201calt-tech\u201d platforms<\/a><\/span>. All that remains is some watered down subverted version of the true Gospel. It\u2019s an imitation gospel. The gospel of the Regime. The gospel of Fauci. The gospel of Black Lives Matter. The gospel of Trump. The gospel of Fox News. The gospel of CNN. The gospel of Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

There is only one true Gospel and that\u2019s the Gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

We must see Him for who He is, not who the world tells us He is. Jesus is not some hippie Mr. Rogers that our culture makes Him out to be. He is King of Kings. He reigns. He rules. He\u00a0flips over tables in the temple<\/a><\/span>. He brought the temple down to a pile of ash in 70 AD,\u00a0as He said he would<\/a><\/span>. He\u00a0scorns the Den of Vipers<\/a><\/span>. He\u00a0rebukes the Synagogue of Satan<\/a><\/span>. This is the Jesus I know and worship. This is the Jesus of Scripture. Christians better start getting to know Him fast.<\/p>\n

We must not only drive the moneychangers out of the systems of control in our society, rebuke them, scorn them, and flip over their tables. We must also build new systems and infrastructure to form a parallel Christian society that glorifies King Jesus forever and ever amen.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2021\u00a0Andrew Torba Gab.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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