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The Hitler Syndrome Part 2 of 2

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00:02 Hitler murdered millions of innocent people.
00:05 What caused the greatest nation in Europe to follow him?
00:09 Why did Catholics and Protestants shout Sieg Heil
00:13 and look the other way
00:14 as six million Jews were butchered and burned?
00:19 What is the Hitler Syndrome?
00:22 Could it happen again?
00:31 Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
00:32 We're talking today about the Hitler Syndrome,
00:37 when people give up their freedom
00:40 for power and security.
00:43 In the last segment, I was talking about this book.
00:46 It's written by Dr. Alec Ryrie and it's called "Protestants."
00:51 I just want to read a little section out of this book
00:54 because it talks about the third Reich.
00:59 So let me just give it to you.
01:01 He says, "The best modern scholarship
01:05 was telling Christians
01:07 that the universe was eternal with no beginning and no end."
01:11 This is what they were taught in Germany,
01:14 before the third Reich.
01:16 "So the universe is eternal," which means there's no God,
01:21 "that of progressive life force of some kind
01:24 drove the world's development,
01:27 that the Bible was a collection of myths,
01:30 forgeries,
01:32 with almost no roots in real history,
01:36 and that humanity was evolving
01:38 to ever greater wisdom and virtue,
01:43 a virtue being defined in social Darwinian terms,
01:48 that left little space for quaint notions
01:51 like justice and mercy."
01:56 And so Germany was infiltrated in these liberal ideas,
02:03 like other parts of the world today.
02:06 I shouldn't tell you where.
02:09 But did you know this that Nietzsche
02:11 who was the great architect of the third Reich
02:16 is possibly in the schools of philosophy
02:20 in the great American universities.
02:23 He is the most popular author.
02:26 Nietzsche.
02:28 No God that might is right.
02:32 And the Bible is just,
02:35 what he called, it's a lot of myths.
02:37 And so when they got rid of the Bible,
02:39 they got rid of the Old Testament.
02:42 And when they got rid of the Old Testament,
02:44 Hitler said,
02:45 "Well, now we're going to get rid of the Jews."
02:48 And so, they murdered the Jews by the millions.
02:55 It was like a repeat of the inquisition.
02:58 We spoke about the inquisition.
03:01 How can you understand
03:04 that priests and bishops and religious people
03:09 are going to burn men, women, and children?
03:13 And they're going to burn them,
03:15 and while the fat is fizzling in the fire,
03:19 they will be singing their hymns.
03:22 That's what they did.
03:24 The Grand Inquisitor in Spain says
03:26 that he personally burned 31,000 heretics.
03:33 And most of those were Roman Catholics.
03:38 Well, Hitler did the same.
03:41 He had the guest chambers, crematoriums,
03:44 he had the great processions, just as they had auto-de-fe.
03:49 And singing of the hymns,
03:51 and the tortures, and the fires,
03:54 Hitler had exactly the same thing,
03:56 and he had the guest chambers, the crematoriums,
04:02 and the great religious marches.
04:04 If you see the great marches of the Nazis,
04:08 they're like the great religious procession.
04:12 They don't have the cross, they have the swastika.
04:15 And they have the singing of tremendous hymns.
04:19 You know, you listen to the German soldiers,
04:21 as the German soldiers are marching down the road,
04:25 and they're singing these great tremendous patriotic songs.
04:30 And everybody, millions and millions of people
04:32 are shouting out, "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!"
04:35 Almost all Christian churches behind it.
04:41 Say, no, no, that's not true.
04:42 Now the atheists were behind it.
04:44 The communists,
04:46 no, no, they were killing the communists.
04:47 Almost all the priests, few exceptions,
04:51 the Pope himself was a supporter of Hitler,
04:55 our fellow catholic.
04:57 You say, it's not true, it is true.
05:01 It is history.
05:04 Almost all ministers like me, almost all of the Protestants,
05:11 and they did it because Hitler was against communism.
05:14 Communism was atheism.
05:17 So almost all supported Hitler, but 95% at least.
05:22 And look the other way when the Jews were murdered
05:24 why because Hitler offered them bread,
05:28 miracles, magic, power, security.
05:32 Exactly what Satan offered Christ,
05:34 and Christ turned him down.
05:36 Now I spoke about Bonhoeffer.
05:40 He's one of my heroes.
05:43 Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
05:46 The British said, look we've got a church here,
05:48 Lutherans, come on.
05:49 "No," he said, "I can't."
05:50 He went over for a while, but he said,
05:52 "I got to go back to be with my people."
05:56 The Americans said, "We'll give you safe passage
05:58 to the United States of America.
06:01 And this is a great country."
06:02 He came over to America.
06:04 He went to Harlem.
06:05 He worshiped in the black churches
06:07 and enjoyed it.
06:08 He said, "They've got some spirit."
06:11 And they've got some soul, and we've lost that in Germany.
06:18 But when he smelt the burning flesh
06:22 from the crematoriums,
06:24 he said, "I am going back to be with my people."
06:30 He was a soldier.
06:36 What about the others?
06:40 April 9, 1945,
06:44 just 2 weeks before the American soldiers
06:47 got there and liberated the death camp,
06:50 they let him out, and they hung him up.
06:54 This man hung up, strung up,
06:57 put to death
07:01 because he had the power of no.
07:03 He was not a conformist. He didn't thief in.
07:08 Some people get on even church committees
07:12 and all you can see them do, they say, "Yes, yes, yes, yes.
07:16 It's my job. Yes, yes, yes. My security, yes, yes."
07:21 What about your conscience?
07:22 "It doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
07:24 Yes, yes, God understands." Yes, He does.
07:27 He understands you're a coward.
07:31 But this man was no coward,
07:34 a Lutheran minister strung up by the neck.
07:38 I think they used a piano wire.
07:43 So he'd lived longer.
07:45 The question, of course, is what would we have done,
07:49 the author of this book, Alec Ryrie says,
07:53 "Don't be too hard on the Germans,"
07:55 we weren't there.
07:57 If we had been there,
07:58 we probably would have done the same thing.
08:01 You see, we would have done the same thing,
08:05 but I'm not a fatalist
08:06 because we have the capacity of choice,
08:09 because God loves us,
08:11 He made us as free moral agents
08:14 with the capacity to choose.
08:19 You can't force me to go against Christ.
08:24 And Dietrich Bonhoeffer said,
08:28 "I will follow my Christ."
08:32 And he stood out against Hitler
08:35 when his church supported Hitler.
08:40 Of course, all the churches,
08:42 all the churches with a few exceptions.
08:49 Now a last day scenario,
08:51 please look at Revelation 13:11,
08:55 Revelation 13:11, "Then I saw another beast,"
08:59 kingdom or power, "coming up out of the earth,
09:03 he had two horns like," what does it say,
09:06 "a lamb spoke like a dragon."
09:09 Now many, many good Christians
09:12 here in the United States of America say,
09:17 "This is Protestant America."
09:21 Goodness.
09:23 The United States of America born in greatness,
09:27 nurtured on the Protestant faith,
09:30 immersed in individualism.
09:35 What do you think of when you think of an American?
09:37 I believe in freedom.
09:39 That's what you think,
09:41 a champion of civil and religious liberties,
09:43 a defender of freedom.
09:49 America has, I think above all other nations,
09:52 the most glorious heritage.
09:54 But the Bible says to speak like a dragon.
10:01 Look at Revelation 13:12,
10:02 when did you last hear that preach, my friend?
10:05 Revelation 13:12,
10:09 I know of at least 20 million people in the world
10:11 who believe this
10:13 "And he exercises all the authority
10:16 of the first beast,"
10:17 that's the beast of the inquisition,
10:19 "in his presence,
10:20 and causes the earth and those who dwell in it
10:24 to worship the first beast,
10:26 whose deadly wound was healed."
10:29 Therefore, he sets up an alliance
10:33 with the beast of the inquisition.
10:36 You can read this in Great Controversy.
10:41 And then verse 13,
10:45 "He performs great signs,
10:47 so that he even makes fire come down from heaven
10:50 on the earth in the sight of men."
10:52 There you have miracles, mystery, magic.
10:59 "Cast yourself down, do a miracle."
11:03 Christ said, "No, I don't want you to follow me
11:05 because of the miracles."
11:06 It is written
11:09 miracles, mystery, an appeal to the senses.
11:15 And then verses 16 and 17,
11:18 Revelation 13:16 and 17.
11:20 "He causes all,
11:22 both small and great, rich and poor,
11:25 free and slave,
11:27 to receive a mark on their right hand
11:30 or on their foreheads,
11:31 and that no one may buy or sell
11:34 except one who has the mark or the name of the beast,
11:39 or the number of his name."
11:42 So I'm not going to go into this now
11:45 because I'm going to tell you something,
11:47 it's a lot more than what you think it is.
11:52 It is a mark of universal conformity.
11:57 Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
12:01 He says, "Unless you do it,
12:03 you're not going to get your bread.
12:06 You won't be allowed to buy or sell."
12:10 But join us, we're going to have the miracles.
12:12 We're going to have the fire.
12:16 And you're going to have security,
12:18 but give us one thing, freedom.
12:23 Give us freedom of choice, and as the old inquisitor said,
12:26 why not, it's a terrible burn.
12:31 "Christ, you made a big mistake.
12:35 Freedom is an intolerable burden,
12:39 most people don't want freedom, they want bread."
12:46 And that of course is the voice of the antichrist.
12:52 So in the last days,
12:54 people will be asked to give
12:57 total conformity,
13:02 they will come a great religious movement
13:05 to force people into conformity.
13:08 Look at me,
13:14 we should not be conformists because we're simply pains.
13:19 There are some and we should not be,
13:21 should I say, individuals,
13:25 just because we want to be different,
13:29 we shouldn't be different for different sake,
13:35 but we should be different for Christ's sake.
13:39 And conformity
13:43 in a religious crisis
13:46 is kissing Christ on the cheek and saying, "Hail Master."
13:52 It's the act of Judas,
13:58 the kiss.
14:00 I ask this question, "Could it happen in America?"
14:05 Now you'll understand, I'm not talking politics,
14:07 I'm not slightly involved in politics
14:11 in Australia or in America.
14:16 And I'm not ashamed to tell people
14:18 I am fiercely independent.
14:22 And I know I'd probably fall out with everybody,
14:25 but so be it.
14:28 Let me tell you folks something,
14:31 I don't want another bunch of people
14:34 telling me how I ought to think.
14:38 I don't want to big political party saying,
14:40 "You've got thinking,
14:42 you got to march here and step."
14:44 No, I don't want that.
14:47 That's getting close to the mark of the beast.
14:54 I don't want a church hierarchy saying to me,
14:57 "You've got to see it this way because I say,
15:00 'My authority is not a hierarchy of the church,
15:03 it is Jesus Christ
15:06 speaking through His Word, the Bible.'"
15:09 You see.
15:10 That's what a Protestant is supposed to be.
15:13 And a lot of Catholics agree with me today on this.
15:16 Okay, could it happen in America?
15:19 We're not talking politics.
15:21 I asked these questions, don't answer them.
15:24 Are people in America
15:25 swayed by oratory in great rallies?
15:31 Do people in America
15:33 easily swallow and digest lies?
15:38 Are people inflamed with hatred for each other?
15:42 Do people put political parties
15:45 before honor, duty, and country?
15:49 Honor, duty, and country.
15:54 God, honor, duty, and country.
15:58 But do people put politics before that?
16:01 Are people stirred up to hate other races,
16:05 like Hitler, stir them up to hate the Jews?
16:09 I've got lots of Jewish friends.
16:11 I've got two great Jewish doctors
16:14 who work really hard to keep me going.
16:20 Some of my best friends are the Jews,
16:26 but the Christians and the rest were stirred up in Germany
16:29 to hate the Jews...
16:34 And to sing songs
16:36 and much as they can smell them burning.
16:43 Now if you can say yes to any of these questions,
16:45 then now is the time to resolve
16:48 to follow Christ and not man.
16:51 Remember, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
16:56 Number two...
16:58 to be, when needed, a non-conformist.
17:02 Not a troublemaker, some people, you know,
17:04 I've been a pastor for more than 50 years,
17:07 and you have some people
17:08 who just like to be non-conformists
17:11 because they just want to cause trouble.
17:13 We're not talking about pettiness and stupidities.
17:17 We're talking about moral and integrity.
17:21 Not a troublemaker, but a person of conscience.
17:24 To refuse to go with the crowd
17:26 when the crowd is going in the wrong direction,
17:33 to vote against the hierarchy
17:35 when the hierarchy is wrong.
17:38 Oh, dear.
17:41 To refuse the Hitler Syndrome.
17:46 So in the last days,
17:49 the vast majority are going to not say Sieg Heil,
17:54 but they are going to do the equivalent.
17:57 They're going to get in lockstep,
18:00 and today, in the western world,
18:03 as an Australian, as an American,
18:05 I can tell you people are taught to conform
18:09 and to go with the majority
18:11 and not to think for themselves.
18:16 That's getting people ready for the mark of the beast.
18:21 And if you're that sort of person
18:24 and if you think you're secure in your salvation,
18:28 so do the people in Germany
18:32 who put Hitler
18:36 on the seat of authority and great power.
18:42 It's good to be a non-conformist
18:45 when the time is demanded.
18:48 I'm going to take you now
18:50 to the plains of Dura in Babylon.
18:53 I want you to take your Bible and turn to Daniel 3:1 and 6.
18:57 Daniel 3:1 and 6.
19:02 "Nebuchadnezzar," type of antichrist,
19:04 "the king made an image of gold,
19:07 whose height was 60 cubits, width 6 cubits.
19:11 He set it up in the plain of Dura,
19:13 in the province of Babylon."
19:16 And he cried out.
19:18 He said, here's the thing,
19:19 "Whoever does not fall down and worship
19:21 shall be cast immediately
19:23 into the midst of a burning fiery furnace."
19:26 Now please,
19:30 let's just think about it.
19:32 Here are three young guys,
19:35 a long way from home.
19:38 And when you are a long way from home
19:40 and when you are a hated religious minority,
19:45 it is not a comfortable feeling.
19:47 Some people say,
19:48 "Oh, I couldn't do this, I wouldn't be comfortable."
19:54 God help you.
19:58 We need to be uncomfortable for Jesus,
20:00 but He asks us to be.
20:03 Goodness me.
20:05 I've heard people say,
20:06 "Oh, it puts me out of my comfort zone."
20:08 "So would you like my handkerchief
20:10 so you can cry?"
20:11 Come on.
20:14 So here you've got three young men.
20:16 This big image that represents the antichrist.
20:19 The King says,
20:20 "You got to fall down and you got to worship this,
20:23 if you don't worship it,
20:24 into the burning fiery furnace."
20:27 Now Daniel 3:7,
20:30 I think is the next verse I'm looking for.
20:32 I think it's verse 7.
20:33 "So at that time, when all the people heard
20:35 the sound of the horn, flute, harp,"
20:37 had a big orchestra by the looks,
20:40 "the lyre, in symphony with all kinds of music,
20:42 all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down, "
20:48 on their noses in the dust,
20:50 "and worshipped the gold image
20:51 which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up."
20:53 So over goes the music.
20:56 What did they all do?
20:58 All down.
21:01 That's the tyranny of the crowd,
21:03 that's the Hitler Syndrome,
21:06 that's to go along with the majority,
21:09 whether the majority is right or not,
21:10 but I've got to get my bread, I've got to get my security.
21:15 What's my freedom?
21:17 Freedom is not very important if I don't have security.
21:20 So what's the choice?
21:21 Well, if it is a choice, I'll have security any day.
21:25 That of course leads to the mark of the beast.
21:28 There were three who wouldn't fall down,
21:31 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
21:35 They wouldn't get down.
21:39 Daniel 3:15, it's just a little summary.
21:43 The king says,
21:44 "Now if you're ready at the time you hear
21:45 the sound of the horn, flute,
21:47 the harp, the lyre, and psaltery,
21:49 in symphony with all kinds of music,
21:51 and you fall down and worship the image
21:53 which I have made, good!
21:55 But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately
21:58 into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
22:00 And who is the God who will deliver you from my hands?"
22:04 So he says I'm giving you one last shot at it.
22:09 You better do it.
22:10 And verse 16.
22:12 He didn't realize whom he was dealing with.
22:16 Verse 16, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
22:19 answered and said to the king, 'O Nebuchadnezzar,
22:22 we have no need to answer you in this matter."
22:25 What don't you understand about no?
22:29 That's the power of no.
22:33 We will not bow down. No.
22:35 What don't you get?
22:38 So what did they do, they take these three young guys,
22:41 these young Jewish guys,
22:42 they throw them into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
22:48 People say about the martyrs when they were burned,
22:51 "Oh, of course, you know, they didn't feel any pain."
22:55 Oh, were you one of the martyrs?
22:57 You come back to tell me.
22:59 No, on the whole, the modest felt a lot of pain.
23:04 If you will being frizzled with a slow fire
23:07 because sometimes that would wet the wood.
23:11 So it took hours to burn them.
23:15 Christians did this.
23:18 In the name of God, people do all sorts of wicked things
23:21 in the name of God.
23:26 So these three young guys
23:27 are thrown in the midst of a burning fiery furnace,
23:31 probably fueled with oil,
23:33 I've been to that part of the world,
23:35 I've been to the part of the world there
23:37 where the oil is seeping out of the ground,
23:39 I've been there.
23:44 But the Bible tells us
23:47 they wouldn't budge,
23:50 they wouldn't bow,
23:52 they wouldn't bend,
23:53 and hallelujah, they wouldn't burn.
23:55 Amen.
23:58 They wouldn't burn.
24:01 And so the king in the old translation,
24:04 says, he's astonied.
24:06 Now I swear he's astonied, he's astonished.
24:09 He says, come out.
24:12 And we're told also in the Bible
24:17 that there was another person who came down there,
24:20 not just three, another person came down.
24:22 And he came and stood with them in the fire.
24:25 That's the good thing, that's the gospel.
24:28 When you're thrown into the fire,
24:30 then somebody who come down and stand with you in the fire.
24:36 And so they come forth and the king says,
24:38 "I can't even smell the fire on you."
24:41 This is a prelude to the story
24:43 of the mark of the beast and the image of the beast.
24:45 In the last days,
24:48 in spite of the weak conformity
24:52 that is encouraged in the world,
24:56 God is going to have people,
25:00 and they won't budge.
25:03 No, they won't bow.
25:07 They're not going to get down with their noses in the dirt,
25:09 they're not going to be crawlers,
25:10 not going to be wimps, they will not...
25:14 just won't bend, they're not going bend,
25:16 they're not going...
25:18 Man, you're not going to be bow down
25:20 or bend or any of those things,
25:22 and by the grace of God, they will not burn.
25:28 And this story in the Book of Daniel is written
25:33 so that we who live
25:35 in the time of the Hitler Syndrome
25:41 will have faith in God
25:44 to stand for the truth
25:47 though the heavens fall and to stand for Christ,
25:52 even when the fire is hot.
25:55 God, my friend, will have a people in the last days
26:01 who will defeat the Hitler syndrome
26:04 and will go home with Jesus
26:07 to glory for his praise.
26:10 Amen and amen.
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