Preface: The following is the first few paragraphs of a post from October 2, 2018 under the title...A Very Natural Temptation. It was last posted on March 6 of this year along with the verse from 1 Samuel....and was titled.....as this whole post is today....It Can Only Get Worse....And It Has. The post focused on Christians in Germany who were not outraged at the hatred for the Jews....for their minds were clouded by the prospect of Germany becoming rich once again. That concept...up until today....was always something from out of the past....or from some other place....and it was hard for us to fully comprehend....but today that same hate for the Jewish people rears its ugly head again. No longer something from history....it should literally terrify us....but its tentacles extend even into our ranks....conservatives and evangelicals. We are a tree that stopped bearing fruit....whose green leaves were spotted with disease....and they failed to turn glorious colors before they died. The excuse we use is that these are Jews....they rejected God....and He has abandoned them. Germany paid a heavy price for taking that position. Did you think that discernment in the last days was going to be easy....that a problem comes up....and you just look it over and make up your mind? God's Word tells us the very opposite.....where great delusion and a falling away is coming....where even the elect would be deceived....if that were possible. We are warned repeatedly to stay awake....and vigilant....that if we do then others would be taken by surprise....but not us! Here's is an odd question to put to you. How much have you read about what the Steelers (or whatever your home team might be)....how much have you read about them in the past three days compared to how much you have read of end-times prophecy in God's Word....which is literally everywhere? How is it that you expect any discernment at all? Are you relying on your perceived intellect?
1 Samuel 8:7...."The Lord said to Samuel, 'Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them." The following was first posted on October 2, 2018:
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.
