We have to be able to look back at Germany in 1933 to see the mistakes that we are making in America today....and we have to be able to do this without being accused of calling Donald Trump another Hitler. The Marxists today are following the Bolshevik pattern in Russia in 1917....Donald Trump is following too closely the pattern of Germany's national socialists who promised to make Germany great again. Ivana....not Ivanka but Ivana Trump....once told her lawyer that Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches at his bedside. This caused a stir during the 2016 campaign. Trump was questioned on it and responded...."If....I had these speeches....and I'm not saying that I do....I would never read them"....in other words....'so I read it sometimes....so what?' A friend of Trump's admitted that he did give him a copy of Hitler's collected speeches....My New Order....because he thought Trump might be interested in them. Hitler had a mesmerizing power over people....as evidenced in the reaction to his speeches....causing them to do things they would otherwise not do. Trump has that same mesmerizing power. This does not make Trump a Hitler....but it does also make us do and sanction things we would not normally do....and follow a man with extraordinary powers of persuasion. The following post....A Very Natural Temptation....was first posted September 26th of last year....the premise below in from the beginning of this year:
What we have right now in America is eerily similar to the struggles that Germany was going through in 1933....with the communists fighting the National Socialists for control of the direction of the country. The communist element here in America is obvious. As for the National Socialist element....it is not in the form of the conservative/libertarian/Tea Party/talk radio people that I had been part of for decades....for most of us have long since surrendered to Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with the dominant anti-Semitism of the National Socialists....and its violence is restricted to firing (purging) people who question the President’s supreme authority....and to humiliation and verbal abuse. It is National Socialist in tactics and in both domestic and foreign policy power
God is most definitely behind the rise of Donald Trump in American politics....only it is not what you probably think. He has given him to us....that it will eventually be evident to us....that we had clamored for a king....as the Israelites had for Saul....and in demanding that king....we had rejected God. This is what happened in Germany....as National Socialism was going to make Germany great again....and that they would be powerful again. It's a very natural temptation no matter what the ideology.
A VERY NATURAL TEMPTATION
As we all know the reparations demanded of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles were unbearable for the German population who were fiercely defensive of their homeland and German heritage. The Weimar Republic which came about at the end of World War I was weak....and hated. It wasn't going to last....but what would replace it? The future of Germany depended on its church which was unified in that the German people believed that the state needed its church....and the church needed its state....but there was little unity beyond that.
A 'German Church' movement developed that entwined itself around the powerful ideology of National Socialism....a movement that was going to lead Germany back into prosperity and power. A 'Confessing Church' movement formed to stop in its tracks the state's intrusion into all church matters....but the Confessing Church itself was divided between those who just wanted the state out of the church....and those who knew that there were big problems with National Socialism.
Martin Niemoller....you may have heard about him....represented those who at first thought that National Socialism was a great thing if kept in its place. Dietrich Bonhoeffer....you certainly have heard of him....saw the horrors of where this extreme nationalism could go. Niemoller spent years in prison and concentration camps before finally seeing the mistakes that he made before the war. Bonhoeffer paid for his discernment with his life.
We are getting too close to having an 'American Church' movement.' President Trump again....this time at a West Virginia rally.....used the phrase "One glorious nation under God." We are not one glorious nation under God....and Donald Trump's god is not our God. I have for decades written various themes on how I love this country....but they will never take the place of or become equal with the gospel of Jesus Christ....and in this we must be vigilant.
It is a very natural temptation....to lay aside one's values in order to help your country....especially in times like this as America is being pillaged and plundered....and to confuse a return to greatness with a return to God. Patriotism can be devotion to justice or it can be devotion to just us. Capitalism can be a God-send....or a god in itself. We are already compromising the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to accommodate 'Make America Great Again'....and it can only get worse as we will seek to be more inclusive of policy that opposes God's Word and exclusive of dictates in His Word....all so that this glorious 'revolution' can continue.
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CABARET....It would only take a few seconds to Google a YouTube of one of the songs from the 1972 musical film.....this one titled.....Tomorrow Belongs To Me. It's not the music that is chilling and subsequently haunting....it's the visuals. The scene is a quaint German town in 1931.....where actor Michael York and another gentleman sit talking at a cafe.....when a young man begins to sing. If you decide to view this....watch the faces on the crowd....all of them as the camera moves around.....and notice the slight change in the young singer's face.....at the point where the subject mater of the song gets more serious.
