These are strange times in which we live. What once seemed impossibility in America is becoming altogether likely. We are about to lose our freedom. After all, as a so friend wisely pointed out, true freedom is the freedom to do what is right...
As I read and post the headlines detailing the evidence of true freedom's demise, I often wonder how it must have felt to be one of the few Christians in Germany to recognize the inherent evil and potential for destruction in the rising Nazi Movement. Were these concerned Christians also told, “It’s not polite to talk about religion and politics?”
Did friends gently remark “It’s too depressing and there's nothing I can do about it anyway.”
Did fellow Christians point out that Jesus did not speak out against the government and quote the famous maxim “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church?”
Or perhaps “Evangelism, not activism, is the answer.”
How about “I’ve read the book. We win in the end.” and “It’s in God’s hands.”
I wonder if they don’t realize that the hands that God uses most often are human hands…
With a few notable exceptions, the Church in Germany chose to accommodate evil rather than fight it. Nine to eleven million people were murdered by the Nazis and tens of millions were killed in the bloodiest war in human history. Germany has yet to recover. Germany is a post-Christian society where child porn is mainstream, unemployed women are encouraged to become prostitutes, and home schooling is illegal. Germany is leading the rest of Europe in a race to becoming the first European Muslim nation…
The “blood of the martyrs” planted no church in Germany. 'Martyrdom' requires standing - something the vast majority of German Christians were unwilling to do.
Are we?
Indifference is not a virtue.
But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes the life of one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.' Ezekiel 33:6
