‘I had to tell him, “Dear brother, fellow man, Jew, before you say anything, I say to you: I acknowledge my guilt and beg you to forgive me and my people for this sin.'”
Martin Niemoller sermon in Erlangen, Germany 1946
Poetry often succinctly captures a moment of time, sometimes an era. The words of a poet can move the heart in ways other literature cannot. Great poets are remembered, and their writing spoken of and written about for long years, decades and centuries afterward. Sometimes poetry is a commentary on culture, pointing out deficiencies and moral failures. Are we at that place where moral failures are dismissed, and the courage of our convictions have withered before the heat of adversity?
Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” It is nearly universally understood today that Santayana’s statement was meant to be a warning to all freedom loving people that we must never allow the moral failures and outrageous behaviors of treasonous, treacherous, evil people to be repeated in our time. Since we lived through atrocities of the past, it is our duty to not allow the same atrocities to overtake us again. Yet that is exactly where we find ourselves today. Let me explain.
Martin Niemoller was an influential German pastor during the rise and reign of Adolph Hitler. When Hitler’s National Socialist Party, the Nazi’s, wrested power from the German government by hook and crook, Niemoller was an enthusiastic supporter. Hitler had promised Niemoller that he had no interest in the church and promised that his party would allow the church to tend to the spiritual needs of the people without interference. This was a monumental lie. Hitler aggressively pursued control of all aspects of German life including the church.
Niemoller’s awakening from his slumber evinced a heavy toll on his heart and mind. He realized too late that he had fallen victim to the siren song of propaganda and had failed his Lord and the German people. In his desire to participate in the tsunami of popular support for the Nazi’s and the national pride they seemed to engender, Niemoller lost sight of the Bible and what it says concerning Israel. What did he do? He repented of his naivety and began to preach the truth concerning the Nazi’s, encouraging his fellow Germans to stand against the warmongering and wicked barbarity that was even then manifesting itself toward the Jewish people. This courage landed Niemoller in Hitler’s concentration camps, where he would spend eight years.
In an act of public confession and repentance, Niemoller authored a poem still quoted to this day. Here is what he wrote.
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
Niemoller ended his poem referencing the Jewish people. He realized too late that the Nazi’s followed a well thought out plan whereby the Jewish people were always the target. Having defined opponents for years as enemies of the state, there was no resolve left among the German people to support and defend the Jewish people.
We have arrived once again at a place in history concerning the Jewish people that if it is to be reversed, there must be mass confession and repentance among Christians in America.
I had brief hope for this nationwide confession and repentance days after October 7, 2023. There appeared to be near global shock and outrage at the murderous hellish murder, rape, and kidnapping of innocent people by demonical charged Hamas and their Iranian masters. Alas that did not translate into mass confession and repentance. Instead, the same mechanisms that have fueled anti-American hatred and violence within our national borders as well as overseas, began their unchecked money flow to their agents. These agents used that money to influence ignorant people to engage in college campus protests. We have all seen the idiocy on full display.
As this unfolded, I understood clearly that a national confession and repentance concerning Israel was not to be. Those in control of America would not let that happen. Following is a list of reasons why this national confession will never happen.
American Christians have said little to nothing for decades while the enemies of Israel, the terrorist proxies of Iran, have bombed, murdered, kidnapped, and raped Jews at their discretion. October 7, 2023, horrendous as it was, is just a microcosm of a greater evil against Israel that has been sustained for decades while American Christians simply went about their daily lives none the wiser.
American Christians have said little to nothing for decades while Muslim countries neighboring Israel have taught their children from the youngest age to hate Jews, to take up arms against the Jewish people, and to die a martyr’s death to inflict pain on any Jew for any reason, or no reason at all beyond their belief that it pleases Allah.
American Christians have said little to nothing while our politicians have groveled at the trough of Muslim money. The price for the Islamic largess? Betrayal of Israel. It is no secret that the US Department of State is a hotbed of Arab Muslim sycophants. The treacherous tenacles of Islam are deeply embedded in American government.
American Christians have said little to nothing about the millions of dollars in Islamic money donated to American universities to fund Palestinian hate groups to foment violence against Jewish Americans.
American Christians have said little to nothing about the horrendous illegal invasion occurring at our southern border with Mexico. It is a known fact that most of those invading America are military aged men of Middle Eastern descent with known ties to Islamic terror groups.
American Christians have said little to nothing about Joe Biden and his administration openly working to foment civil war in Israel and to unseat a freely elected Benjamin Netanyahu from his office so that this American government can install their puppet to concede defeat to the Islamic terrorists. Destroying sovereign foreign nations has been an American strategy for decades while American Christianity slept.
The seeds of America’s destruction have been sown in heaps for decades. Communists, Socialists, and Marxists are all out in the open. Evil forces have operated in the open, none so blatantly since 2020. Antifa and Black Lives Matter, two virulently anti-American domestic terrorist organizations, have been given billions of dollars by American corporations to continue their anarchy and subversion, while Conservative, Bible-believing Christians have been made the target of lawfare by our highest law enforcement agencies in the land.
We are witnessing Niemoller’s poem in the inverse today. For Niemoller the Jews were last and there was no one to stand for them and with them. Hitler prioritized his genocidal strategies to eliminate the Communists, Socialists, and their boots on the ground, trade unionists first. Then he came for the Jews. Americans today are willing to throw Israel to the Islamic Jihadi terrorists in the hope that they will escape unscathed, while allowing a Communist take over of our nation. How utterly and ridiculously ignorant this is.
Terrorism is the path to tyranny, absolute state control, and inestimable human suffering. Hitler proved it. The ayatollahs are proving it. Remaining silent in the face of such an onslaught of evil is reprehensible. If these wicked people have their way Israel will fall. Fortunately, there are a few American Christians who see clearly what is transpiring and they are beginning to stand.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, we must stand now. All of creation is the Lord’s. There is no subject, issue, or ideology that is not under the purview of God. He has spoken to all things through His Word, and by His Spirit.
The enemies of God will not stop at Israel, and that includes American enemies and even some Americans who claim Christ. The United Kingdom is within the Islamic grasp. America could be in the grip of foreign control soon. Some say it already is. If we do not stand up for the Jews today, who will there be to stand when they come for us?
Dr. Mike Spaulding
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