There are ominous parallels between Nazi Germany in the 1930s and America today. The rise of Anti-Semitism worldwide is a precursor of events that will see the persecution and even slaughter of thousands, perhaps millions of Jews worldwide. The time to speak out is now because before this is all over they will not just be coming for the Jewish people this go around like they did in Germany in the 1930s, they will be coming for the Christians too.
By Chris McDonald
Psalm 11:3 - If the foundations are being destroyed, what can the
righteous do?
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't communist.
They they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionists.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Finally, they came for me, but there was no one left to speak up.
Martin Niemoeller, a Lutheran Pastor who was sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1938.
America's foundations are at stake. But history has given us ample warning of what happens to a society when national patriotism takes the place of righteousness.
We have been warning the last several months that persecution is coming to this nation. This persecution will be something new to most American Christians because we have not suffered as such. There are some very ominous parallels between the emergence of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s and the emergence of socialism and globalism in America in the 21rst Century. The last decade has seen an escalation of this, especially under the eight years of former President Bill Clinton's administration. Nazism, fascism, and communism had a number of common denominators: an all-powerful totalitarian dictatorial government which controlled all aspects of their subject's lives; massive numbers of rules, regulations and laws enforced by an ever increasingly powerful bureaucracy; and a preoccupation with death and the occult. All three were secular humanist (i.e. worshipped man instead of worshipping the true and living God) to the core. Socialism is simply communism or Nazism without the total dictatorship. We are free citizens in America but our freedoms are quickly eroding since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Gorbachev, Castro, Daniel Ortega, etc. were all first and foremost socialists. So were our former President and Vice-Presidents, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Most of their subordinates in their administrations were as well. The current Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, is also a Socialist. This, of course, is my opinion.
The seeds of Hitler's rise to power and the slaughter of six million Jews were planted long before the actual killing started. I am concerned the same seeds planted in Germany then have already been planted in America today. The election of George W. Bush in 2000 was I believe a reprieve from the Lord for this nation. Had Mr. Gore been elected it makes me tremble to think what state the country would be in at the present. No, Mr. Bush isn't perfect, and some of his own administration have views that have disaster written on them if Mr. Bush decides to accept them and implement them as national policy. But I believe in Mr. Bush's heart, he knows the Lord Jesus. He may be naive at times and sadly places politics above righteousness but no one can deny he has at least tried to bring a semblance of morality and decency back to the White House. Integrity is at the top of his list of leadership goals.
This journal is not about politics. This journal is a warning to the nation and those reading that we are on the same path that Germany took in the early 1930s prior to electing Adolph Hitler. The Election Crisis of 2000 was not an accident. I believe the very forces of hell were at work seeking to gain total and full control of the United States of America and in turn put people in power who would seek the total destruction of both the Jewish people and everyone who names the name of Yeshuah. Jonathan Hansen prophesied in early 2001 that a coming disaster would befall New York City. The events of September 11, 2001 was not the fulfillment of that disaster! He believed the Lord sent a "warning" judgment on September 11th to this nation to let us know that if we refuse to repent what is ahead will be ten times worse. One of the most startling things he said however after the attacks was that the Lord showed him had the attacks not occurred there was such an escalating hatred of Christians and Jewish people in this nation that we were headed for a time when every pastor, teacher, evangelist and prophet would be drug out into the street and beaten. Some may have even died. It was like the events of September 11, 2001 threw cold water on this simmering hatred of Christians and Jews. The question that has to be asked though is how much will this hatred increase again before the next "September 11th" event takes place?
Man has elevated himself to the position of a god (the essence of secular humanism), determining that he can better control his own affairs than his Creator. God established the forces of nature. Man seeks to control those and manipulate them for his own selfish motive and needs. The 1920s and 1930s saw rampant inflation and debt accumulation, monetary, economic, social and political, moral and spiritual decline on a scale unprecedented in Germany history. America over the past 20 years has experienced the same thing. When Adolph Hitler rose to power he promised safe streets, sound currency, an end to all economic problems, unemployment, pornography, and all other forms of perversion and the restoration of Germany's national "dignity," and "military strength." Hitler delivered on all these promises.
His words were music to the ears of a depression and war crippled Germany. Milton Mayor wrote in They Thought For Themselves that "fascism came to Germany as an 'angel of light.' and Germany Christians, both Protestants and Catholics, welcomed Hitler as a gift from God. Nazism was seen as redemptive of a decadent society; and came almost as a Puritanism to a majority of sick perversions and license parading as liberty." Hitler used the CHURCH in Germany as a springboard to power. The dean of Magdeburg Cathedral exulted in the Nazi flags displayed in his church, declaring "whoever reviles this symbol of ours is reviling our Germany. The swastika flags around the altar radiate hope - hope that the day is at last about to dawn." Another Pastor, Siegfried Leffler said, "in the pitch black night of church history, Hitler because, as it were, the wonderful transparency of our time, the window of our age, through which light fell on the history of Christianity. Through him were were able to see the Savior in the history of the Germans" Pastor Julius Leuthesuer actually taught that "Christ has come to us through Adolph Hitler."
This level of deception was not true for the entire German church, but it was true of the majority. This profound delusion, was balanced somewhat by the extraordinary grip on truth and understanding by such dissenters in the German church as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer's life was one of the 20th Century's greatest examples of how a few who hold to the truth without compromise, standing against the most powerful political and military machines in history with nothing but spiritual power, will ultimately prevail. What was said of Abel could be said of him - "though he being dead, he still speaks." Bonhoeffer didn't have a superficial view of redemption. He preached a walk with God that required man to die to himself and be free of any ambition and worldly pride. His book The Cost Of Discipleship is one of the greatest works on Grace one could ever read.
In light of this though, the German churches' superficial understanding of redemption which opened the door to this terrible deception, I fear, will be America's path as well. The good that is in man will NEVER redeem him from the evil that is in him. MAN IS A SINNER and man cannot save himself outside the redemptive power of the work of Yeshuah in shedding His blood for our sins. The gospel message preached in most American churches today though is a bloodless gospel. It doesn't require anything of its listeners. There is very little talk of repentance and renouncing the old life. We are scared to use terms like "holiness," "righteousness," "purity." Listen, those standards are not determined by MAN! But they ARE determined by the Lord Jesus Christ who is our example. True holiness and the fear of God are requirements for eternal life. Without either, we will make hell our abode for eternity. The system whose coming appeared so good to the Germany Christians shocked the world with its evil deeds, but its nature was the same as the worst drug addict in the world. The "good" of man is just the other face of man's evil heart. Satan uses good as a tool to bring about his purposes in the earth. He will do this again in a greater scale when the Antichrist rises to power in the near future. He will come offering almost the same things Hitler did to a world steeped in poverty, war, depression. On a more national scale though, it doesn't take a scientist to see that we as American citizens will put baby-killers in the White House just because they promise us a better way of life and promise to make our wallets bigger. That is the same thing that happened in Germany in 1930.
In addition to this main parallel, there are others as well.
A Preoccupation With Death
In the 1930s the Germany people began to have a preoccupation with death. Via abortion they killed 40 percent of all babies conceived. Then they moved on to euthanasia, then to the killing of the crippled, deformed and handicapped, and then to the killing of Jews. At one point in the 1930s, the Nazis emptied out hospitals, clinics, and sanitariums, and killed up to 275,000 old, sick, crippled, retarded, or otherwise handicapped persons. This was well before the Nazi death camps opened.
As in America today, the disposal of the unwanted was rationalized as making room for the more capable, competent, or productive. As Germany evolved into a culture of death, most Germans barely took note of it, or saw anything wrong with it. Extermination of Jews, Christians, and any other undesirables was a natural progression of this preoccupation with death in Germany. In America, we kill 1.6 million babies per year via abortion (i.e. over 40 million in the past 26 years); we are moving rapidly toward euthanasia; we see massive gratuitous violence and murder in our movies and television that has so desensitized us all we sit and watch these things without even feeling moved anymore. This is a dangerous sign! We witnessed Dr. Jack Kevorkian perform assisted suicides on television and instead of outrage, he became the topic of most jokes on late night TV. Drive-by and freeway shootings and violent hate crimes have become a way of life in America. We have just become so numb to it, it don't bother us any more. It didn't bother national Germany either in the 1930s. So when 6 million innocent Jewish people went to their deaths via Hitler's machinery, most just stood by and watched without feeling or remorse. AND FRIEND, that type of feeling is happening to America today. The question is when will they stop just aborting babies and start killing Jews and Christians?
An Abundance Of Laws And Regulations In The Name Of National Security
The Nazis passed thousands of laws, rules and regulations to regulate and control every aspect of Germany's life. These laws were passed so that anyone could be branded (or labeled) as a criminal and have their property seized, be jailed or executed at the whim of the Nazis. Highly complex financial, currency and cash reporting, and privacy laws were passed which almost no one understood. Christians who sent money out of the country to missionaries had their assets seized and were often jailed (or worse) under Nazi money-laundering laws. Raids on homes (often in the middle of the night) by the Gestapo became commonplace, along with widespread property seizures.
America has followed the same path over the past 12 years America has passed more than 2,500 new regulations (many during the Clinton years) that will make every American (just as in Nazi Germany) a potential criminal in violation of a number of regulations at any time. Some do not know they even are guilty of such things. The point is this. Anyone who is labeled a trouble maker (and Christians I'm talking to us!) they will be jailed, arrested, fingered and eventually stripped of all their assets - just as it was done in Germany during the 1930s. In both cases it was done legally.
A Preoccupation With Environmentalism And Animal Rights
The Germans in the 1930s were preoccupied with environmentalism and animal rights, with the Nazis passing all sorts of laws, rules and regulations to protect the environment (while restricting the rights of their people - especially the Jews) and to protect animals (wild and domestic). America sunk to an all time LOW if you will in this area during the Clinton-Gore years. Paul spoke of a time in the end when men would have "unnatural affection." (2 Tim. 3:1-8). In other words men would be more concerned about the preservation of a buzzard instead of the preservation of an unborn child. The Clinton administration went wild passing laws concerning the wetlands, clean air, clean water laws to the Endangered Species Act. We spent millions of dollars trying to protect the snail darter, northern and Mexican spotted owls, golden cheeked warblers, kangaroo rats, a myriad of insects and other critters.
At the time of this writing our President is coming under tremendous fire from the Socialist side of the country because he wants to drill for oil in Alaska. Environmentalists are screaming that the drilling will damage Alaska's precious resources. The purpose of the President's plan is to wean America off Saudi Oil so we won't be so apt to be blackmailed by them in the future over the prices of oil. But because of the rising feeling in this nation that America's best interest lies with the Arabs instead of the Jewish people those in the government will do whatever necessary to stop the President's energy plan. Tom Daschle single-handedly stopped Mr. Bush's stimulus package and he has stopped this energy plan too. Daschle is only a voice of a far more increasing number of American citizens who are more worried about the environment and animals than protecting what is more important - the Jewish race.
There is an ominous parallel between the animal rights legislation in the Third Reich and the Endangered Species Act passed in the mid-1990s under Clinton-Gore here in America. The Nazis abolished any moral distinctions between humans and animals. They decreased the value of human life and placed it along side animal life. Laws were passed that forbade the experimentation and dissection of animals for research. In their fervor for animal protection, they even addressed the shoeing of horses and the suffering of lobsters and crabs being boiled alive. (OUCH, I love Red Lobster, I'd been in trouble!) Around 1935, the Nazis shifted their concentration on protection of farm animals and pets to include wildlife. They talked of "establishing conservation and breeding programs," and passed laws governing hunting.
One of the most chilling statements made by the Nazis came from their charter:
...returning to the animal nature within man, communing with nature, and elevating animal life to the level of cult worship, as alternatives to modernity, technology, and urbanization...would lead to the spiritual and ideological changes necessary...for new national self-identity."
Friend, that "return to national self-identity," and "spiritual and ideological changes," caused six million precious Jewish people to die at the hands of the German machinery. At the root of these exterminations was a drive to protect animals and the environment at the expense of human existence.
Hitler declared "I want violent imperious, fearless, cruel young people...The free, magnificent beast of prey must one again flash from their eyes.....I want strong and beautiful...and athletic youth. In this way I shall blot out thousands of years of HUMAN domestication. I shall have the pure noble stuff of nature." That sounds demented and demonic. But it is not more demented and demonic that what went on during the Clinton-Gore years from 1992-2000. And had Mr. Gore gotten elected don't think he would not have carried this to the next level. What concerns me now is not Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush is not an environmentalist. He is a President who cares about PEOPLE. But should it be in 2004 or 2008 the next leader we have in office may very well bring America back to this path to hell in putting more stock and value in a snail darter than in a human life. At the end of all of this will be justification for the slaughter of people again. HEAR WHAT I SAY TO YOU!
A Preoccupation With The Occult
The Nazi Third Reich was not just a political movement or regime - it was also a supernatural, occult movement and was in strong opposition to true Christianity and Orthodox Judaism. The religious foundation of the Nazi Third Reich was from the same Eastern religions that are the foundation for the present-day New Age movement, which now permeates the Liberal Eastern Establishment and energizes or provides the occultic dynamic behind the New World Order.
Gary Kah, an evangelist who used to work in the state level of government in a Midwestern state, believes the same seeds that existed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s that drove Hitler's "world" domination theory, is being driven in the 21rst Century by the fear of terrorism. Before September 11, 2001, America didn't understand nor have that fear. Now we do.
According to Kah in his recent book, En Route To Global Occupation, "Since World War II the influence of the U.S. has increasingly been manipulated by internationalists to accomplish their purpose. Beginning in a major way with the founding of the United Nations, the chief task of the United States would be to "build" the New World Order. Only the U.S. had the wherewithal to put all of the pieces in place. It has been our financial resources, creative technology and cultural diversity that have made the occult New Age dream of "one world" possible. We are also the only nation comprised of people from all other nations, giving us an unparalleled influence over the rest of the world. But now that we have taken humanity to the verge of global unification through the United Nations, is there anything left for us to do? Has the United States fulfilled its destiny in the eyes of global planners? How might the answer to this question affect our future? If global leaders still have a purpose for America in their overall scheme of things, then perhaps we have a bit more time. But, if in their eyes, we have achieved our purpose, then we are expendable and could soon be eliminated from the picture.
Having gained some idea of America's role in building the New World Order, the only remaining question I had was 'What will happen to the U.S. once it has fulfilled its mission?' There is some disagreement among researchers on this question. Some believe that once we have entered the New World Order, Europe will be made the headquarters of the world government. Others believe that the seat of power for the world government will be in the United States, specifically in New York City. As things currently stand, New York would be the logical choice to be the world's capitol, given the fact that it is the most powerful and influential city in the world and that the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission are all headquartered there. However, the secret hierarchy of Europe, which is still ultimately in charge, might have different plans. If they intend to locate the world capitol in Europe, they will find a way to do so. Such a decision, however, would probably involve either the economic devastation or physical destruction of New York City. This could be accomplished in several ways – economically, through a planned collapse of the stock market or a severe depression resulting from our excessive national debt; or physically, as an act of terrorism, as a nuclear 'accident,'or through a limited nuclear war. Whatever method would be selected, the European hierarchy, I believe, would be capable of carrying it out (if God allows it). Is New York destined for destruction? I don't know the answer to this question, nor do I wish such a fate upon the people of that city. However, the parallels between New York and the great, but wicked city described as Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17 and 18 are difficult to ignore. I can only hope these passages are describing something else (page 65)
The current unfolding crisis could determine America's future, one way or the other. Maybe the purpose of the recent attacks was merely to give America the "opportunity" to further lead the way in uniting the world against a common enemy – terrorism. At this very moment an unprecedented international coalition is being built to combat this terrible menace. But could this coalition and the steps it puts in motion actually help speed the cause of global government? The world's unified response to terrorism, no matter how restrained, will only serve to strengthen the hand of government at the expense of personal liberty. It will lead to higher taxes, increased surveillance, less privacy and fewer freedoms, to say nothing of the many smaller inconveniences such as having to arrive two hours early at airports for flight travel. All of these are natural responses by governments to protect their citizens, but represent a victory for terrorists nonetheless. If national governments aren't extremely careful, these measures could be used to further empower the existing international infrastructure, leading us more quickly to world government.
The religious foundation of the Nazi Third Reich was the same as our modern-day "New Age" Movement. This movement now permeates the Liberal Eastern Establishment and energizes or provides the occultic dynamic behind the New World Order. It's interesting how the Nazis had a low respect for human life, but revered animals, nature, etc. and how today's abortion movement, environmentalists, animal rights activists have low respect for human life yet are concurrently fanatical about preserving trees, plants, animals, fish, birds, insects, planet earth, and push population limits, control, reduction, abortion, euthanasia. The extremes of low regard for people but high regard for animals and nature come from roots tied deep in occultic and Eastern religions. In India, the breeding ground of the Eastern religions, cows and rats are worshipped as gods and cannot be killed or eaten, which insects cannot be killed because they could be someone's reincarnated family member or loved one. The Eastern religions made a powerful inroad in Nazi Germany in 1930 and they have done the same in modern-day America.
New World Order people hate Jews and they hate Christians. Why? Because both are a great threat to their socialist, globalist, homosexual or environmental agendas for the planet. Some refer to Judaism and Christianity as a "virulent virus," that has to be purged and exterminated.
Just as their were supernatural, demonic and occultic dynamics to the Nazis, there is the same dynamic being generated today behind the scenes of the evening news here in America. Our society mirrors this freefall we have experienced especially over the past 30 years. This occultic worship of Satan and the spirit world (demons, etc.) will be one of the major factors in the coming global persecution of Christians and Jewish people in the new future. This is already taking place in other parts of the world. But with America's preoccupation with the occult, believe me friend, it's only a matter of time before it happens here just as it did in Nazi Germany during the 1930s.
Gun Control Laws And Issues
I don't own a gun myself but America is following Hitler's lead as the political left in this country scream bloody murder in trying to implement the same Nazi-type gun control laws implemented in Germany in 1935. The reason this was done was to disarm the people and further enhance the government's capability to dominate the masses. Aaron Zelman, head of Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, did a comparison of the Nazi's 1928 and 1938 gun control laws, and those passed in the U.S. in 1968 and since, and found these to be almost IDENTICAL with those of Nazi Germany's - "as if they had been copied." There will be a big push to disarm America - especially in the wake of September 11, 2001. The government will seek to remove guns from anyone suspected of being a "terrorist." I'm not an advocate for guns but I am an advocate for freedom. And the root of this is evil. It's an evil force driving the New World Order movement which is pressuring the U.S. towards a one-world government.
Ignoring The Constitution And Rejecting The Nation's Biblical Roots
Hitler completely ignored the German Constitution, just as our politicians and courts are doing so today in America. Whenever he wanted to do something, he would just do it. He would often write a note, as he did when he wrote a note to the Nazi doctors instructing them to begin widespread euthanasia and they did. Three days after former President Clinton took office in 1993 he issued several executive "orders," that brought down years of restraint on abortion and lifted a ban on allowing homosexuals in the military. It's this type of lack of concern for the Constitution that will set the stage for a state of national emergency and martial law in America.
Hear what I say to you right now. Our nation is still in shock over September 11, 2001. The government has been very busy pushing "anti-terrorism" legislation making it harder for American citizens to live in the name of National Security. Little resistance has been noted to this because the citizenry is scared. But when the dust settles, just put the name "Christian," in the place of "terrorist," and see how close we are to persecution in this country. Friend, the machinery is being put in place for what took place in Nazi Germany in 1930. Hitler used FEAR to make the German people believe a dictatorship was necessary to protect them. I don't think Mr. Bush is that type leader, but he's a politician. And whatever he does now in the name of national security and anti-terrorism, will be used later to hunt down everyone who names the name of Jesus. As we wrote in our most recent journal, the fishers are here now, the hunters are coming later.
Another thing the German people experienced before the during the Nazi's reign and rise to power was a rejection of their Christian heritage. Hitler promoted patriotism over righteousness. He promoted a feeling of national superiority over other nations instead of humility and the fear of God. The communists did the same thing in Russia and China. Those who cry out and warn America to come back to her God are laughed at, scorned, mocked and ridiculed. The question is how much longer will they just be laughed at before someone's blood is shed for this?
When the events of September 11, 2001 took place patriotic flags and stickers sold at unprecedented rates. A feeling of national patriotism swept America. Many mistook this for a "renewal." Yes, I believe some did make things right with God, but we as a nation DID NOT REPENT! We boasted of how we were going to "rid the world of evil doers." Friend, before we go trying to rid the world of evil doers, we would be very wise to rid ourselves of the evil inside US first! We cannot keep killing babies and claim we're a Christian nation. We cannot keep embracing the satanic and demonic and claim God is on our side. We cannot pat the Islamic world on the back and exclaim "Islam is a peace loving religion (IT'S NOT!) without eventually paying a price for our ignorance and blindness. We cannot keep embracing the spirit of perversion through lust, homosexuality, etc. and tell the world the gay lifestyle is normal and say we fear the Lord. Something has to give. Patriotism is good to a degree but God wants more than patriots, He wants REPENTANCE! He wants us broken before Him for our national sin.
Hitler organized homosexuals, drug addicts, and criminal elements into the S.A. (the Brown Shirts) and from early 1933 to June 30, 1934, they did his dirty work - breaking up opponents' political meetings, beating up or killing the opposition, and intimidating the people. Then in 1934 the German military came to Hitler and told him to eliminate the Brown Shirts or he would lose their support. So Hitler unleashed the S.S. on the Brown Shirts. Over 1,000 S.A. leaders were killed on June 30, 1934 (Called the NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES) and that was the beginning of the end of the S.A. It is very significant that Hitler recruited THOUSANDS of homosexuals to help lead his Brown Shirt storm troopers. Even after the S.A. purge, many homosexuals remained in the upper ranks of the Third Reich. The previous administration under Bill Clinton pushed the homosexual agenda unlike any president in this nation's history. While Mr. Bush has taken a 180-degree different stance in this, I can't help but wander what will happen with our next leader?
In Closing
I pray you will read what I have written and take it to heart. I'm not saying that this scenario applies to every American citizen or Christian no more than every German or German Christian did nothing to help the Jews. We are at a serious crossroads in human history right now and things are happening rapidly. We cannot keep the website updated these days with all the attacks that are taking place right now in Jerusalem. That's how volatile things are in the Middle East.
Friend, pray for America. As I have stated before, judgment may not be averted, but it can be delayed. It's a time in history where we must stand in the gap and interceded for the peace of Jerusalem. The destruction of Germany after World War II is a testimony to what happens when a nation forgets God. Can we expect anything less? Blessings.