Warfare Theology and The Coming 4th Reich!

THE SYMPTOMS

We live in troubled times no doubt, the world is full of hostile, and even evil people. As Christians, we have for 20 centuries now, had to deal with all manner of evil as it seems to freely move about in our lives, our countries, and even our churches. We are reminded of the words of the Prophet who said...

(Jeremiah 12: 1) Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? Wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

It seems that in our world, those who steal, presume, extort, intimidate, lie, kill, and ignore the commands of our God, are rewarded with all manner of positive reinforcement for their deeds. This constant borage of inequity eats away at the Christian, who has adopted an attitude of justice, love, truth, obedience to God, and to shun evil practices that we know displease God. In a society that professes a form of Godliness, this constant injustice can brew for decades in the subconscious of the people and brew a strong sense of injustice and anger. A people can become so disillusioned with the world around them, that even without consciously deciding to do so, a spirit of indignation can build toward the world around them. They can begin to adopt an attitude of spiritual, and intellectual superiority towards others who are not "of their camp", or of their society. Although that attitude starts out from a holy standard that exists in the hearts of said people, it can become much more than that... much, much more.

The setting is Europe, 1920s and 1930s. The proliferation of all types of lewd, and sexually explicit behavior is running rampant in the streets of France, Germany, Belgium, England, and most of the current European Union countries. Even the theaters, where people liked to go and escape from their daily routines, were becoming inundated with this kind of activity. The book stores were full of it, the advertising media glorified these indulgences with great pride and wonder. The Christian population of Europe felt a hopeless sense of darkness beginning to enshroud their lives, starting as always, with their entertainment. Homosexuality, polygamy, incest, murder, lewdness, public displays of sexuality, pornography. This perceived threat to the way of life of the European Christian began to work its way into their laws, acquiring protections, rights to exist, and freely promote itself. It smoldered in their hearts, brought fear into the minds and hearts of the people, a sense of being besieged by a force, fast becoming too great to reckon with, DESPERATION! Add to that the financial struggles of the common man of the time, the hopelessness of no long term employment, and the stage is set for a knight in shinning armor to come along and lead the people out of a "dark age" of immorality, poverty, and moral decay.

Reference, Germany. (a people who were more than 75% Catholic/Christian in 1927, according to historians). A militant "pro-active" desire to change the world around them... no, to SAVE the world around them, had been fostered by the trends of society for more than a decade. The average German man got up in the morning, and went out to stand in what they called "Queues", waiting to be picked by a contractor for work on a day by day basis. No long term stability existed for these men, every day began with the search for a job, if you didn't work, you didn't eat... period. I cannot, as a 21st century American, imagine the emotional state of such men... or can I? As we all know, a man did come along, who seemed to fit the description of a remedy for the things that ailed the German population. His name was Adolph Hitler. I remember going to school and learning about the history of these events. I remember the focus always being on what a hideous tyrant Hitler had become, and the atrocities that his administration committed. But after taking a closer look, now that I am an adult, I have seen a different picture. First of all, if anyone thinks that Adolph Hitler came to power without the approval of the German people, by some magical or mysterious force that propelled him to power without the consent of the German population, they are sadly mistaken. So how could such a man, such an obviously evil dictator be given the blessing of a population of over 75% Christians? Here are some Quotes from some of Hitler's speeches and writings, ranging from 1919 through his fall to the Allies...

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so"
[Adolph Hitler, to Gen. Gerhard Engel, 1941]

"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
[Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46]

"And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly, it is the distress which daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. And when I look on my people I see it work and work and toil and labor, and at the end of the week it has only for its wage wretchedness and misery. When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited."
[Adolph Hitler, Speech in Munich 4/12/22]

"Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth...Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural ideal."
[Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 10, ]

Adolph Hitler came to power in Germany, with the blessing of the German people, because he professed Christianity. Make no bones about it, this man told the German people for a long time, that he was sent by God, to free them from the very things we discussed earlier in this article. A society of right thinking Christians, who genuinely cared for the will of their God being carried out in their society, supported what turned out to be one of the most brutal regimes in the history of the world. How does this happen? Certainly God would not allow such a terrible thing to arise from a Christian nation, filled with God fearing people, looking for a leader/administration to deal with the concerns of those God fearing people? His platform, as it were, was not about the Jews, which is all we now remember, it was in fact about the suffering of the common German, and the Immorality of the day. He was surrounded by a "Myth" with the people, that he came from "supernatural" origins. This myth was considered very troublesome with the allies, and because of it decisions were made not to assassinate him as he would have become even more mystical in the eyes of the German people. The history we hear about, is about what his platform had become, not what it started out to be. I think it is important, in examining the events of our time, to consider this piece of history in a more complete fashion, in order to both understand certain dangers, and to avoid the mistakes of the past. Who was it that said, "History repeats itself."? It was Mark Twain...

"It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
[Mark Twain in Eruption]

I wish to accomplish in the reader this exact goal in looking back at an event in history that has, in my view, a lot of forgotten, unknown, and meaningful lessons. The religious right, the Christian coalition, and those who subscribe to this New World Order mentality, Christian supporters of the War on Terror, and this wave of Warfare theology, had better lend an ear...

It wasn't until well into Hitler's rule that people in Germany began to act on their regrets, that they realized that they had "created a monster" so to speak, and by then it was too late. In spite of a meager outcry when he was elected, that disputed the legitimacy of his victory, he had become an extremely popular leader. People in Germany that disagreed openly with the actions of the state were made a public spectacle, they were labeled as unpatriotic, they were brutalized, demoralized, and counted among the Jews in the camps of death. The rest, as they say, is history. How could a society with an almost unanimous Christian population produce such a vile and despicable government? Let’s take a look at the ingredients that made up this progression of events...

1. A strong influx of Immorality exposing itself in the public eye, and working feverishly to embed itself in society and become commonplace.
2. A population made up of a weighty majority of Christians, wishing to live in a place where it was safe to send their young people to theaters.
3. A collective indignation toward the "evil" spreading like cancer in their society and claiming the lives and opinions of its youth.
4. A workforce of people out of work, struggling to survive, and seeing an elite class hoarding most of the collective wealth.
5. An indisputable majority of the people boiling over current affairs, a ticking time bomb, waiting for its fuse. (Adolph Hitler was that fuse.)

But, as we all know, after coming to power, no, into indisputable power, Hitler morphed into an entirely different creature. Ironically, his campaign of death began with "A War on Terror". Here is the mentality that comes from the arrogance of control, and the need to manipulate masses of people to fight for your agenda...

How could one compare such a vile and hideous history to present day events? How could we conceive of this black mark on the history of man repeating itself in a world where we have become so advanced and mature, so informed by the mistakes of the past? Follow the links to the remainder of our observations...

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