HAKENKREUZ

 

HAKENKREUZ

Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. (Mt.,22:21; Mk.12:17; Lk.20:25)

  Yesterday I completed reading Erwin W. Lutzer’s HITLER’S CROSS, “a chilling historical account of what happens when evil meets a silent, shrinking church, and an intriguing and convicting expose’ of modern America’s hidden crosses.”

  The broken cross of Christ, the swastika, continues as a symbol of NAZI agenda.

  As part of today’s thoughts I stop here and explain 4 relevant things I influentially believe.

1. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked and the Lord gives to mankind according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer.17:9)

2. Mankind learns little from history, repeating the same mistakes again and again.

3. There is no then and now. Then is now – very much influencing current life. (Lately this is fashionably explained as The Butterfly Principle.)

4. As an elder I have the serious responsibility to edify others.

  The above 4 beliefs are among the reasons I read as much as I do and yet sense it’s not enough.

  Hitler’s cross is symbolic of philosophies and practices then that influence life now. Those anti-Scriptural ideas were not obliterated with the defeat of the NAZI government. Nor did they begin then. They are ancient. In more recent times prior to the rise of the NAZIs. Great Britain, then the USA, dabbled in eugenics and its applications. The NAZIs took the philosophies and tragically refined them in horrific methodology. Crowds of citizens, thinking man held solutions, passionately followed. Others turned their heads thinking being uninvolved was possible. Those citizens that resisted suffered. In the whirl of it all many churches inappropriately preached Romans 13:1-7 as did our Southerners tout the Bible endorsing slavery. In both cases pastors and parishioners selfishly contributing to dreadful events.

  History shows numerous failed rehearsals of the end time yet to come. Does it teach us that we are not to digress from Biblically occupying until Lord Jesus Christ returns? It should. (Lk.19:11-27)

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