Christian Truth or Antichrist Deception?

[lesjude]

A person with charisma stepped on a platform, stood behind the lectern, and gave this moving speech. Is this Christian or antichrist? Would this speech be received by Christians in America? Is a similar message already being received?


"MY LORD AND SAVIOR . . . IN THE BOUNDLESS LOVE AS A CHRISTIAN . . . HE HAD TO SHED HIS BLOOD UPON THE CROSS. My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them. This is God's truth! He was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.


"When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand
years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited."

 

[Adaephon]

What?

 

[FatalHeart]

I'm pretty sure God never refers to people as poison. "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus." All means all and God did not tell us to go out and kill our enemies, but to preach the good news. You have to be wary of anything that de-humanizes, even if it is de-humanizing your enemy. God wishes to save all men by the blood of Jesus. If it supports that message, it will at least lead people to heaven, but Satan doesn't want anyone to be saved. Still, a little yeast mixes through the whole batch, the disciples were to be on their guard against the yeast of the pharisees and Herod. When presented with things like this it is good to sift out the good, emphasize it, and then to reveal the bad for what it is and combat it. This speech is indeed very unstable, but many of its concepts are right on, still, I would not follow it into genocide of the rich or jewish community, as to me that seems where it is going so far. We were called to rebuke and discipline and I don't see a war being fought for holy purposes as a holy war. I think fighting should only be done to defend ones life or freedom, not to destroy others who disagree with us. That is my take. It is not my full take and depicts it in this speech in a darker light to what it could be saying. And yes, I do believe similar concepts have crept in America that could lead to the darker side of the reading of this.

 

[grasping the after wind]

A person with charisma stepped on a platform, stood behind the lectern, and gave this moving speech. Is this Christian or antichrist? Would this speech be received by Christians in America? Is a similar message already being received?


"MY LORD AND SAVIOR . . . IN THE BOUNDLESS LOVE AS A CHRISTIAN . . . HE HAD TO SHED HIS BLOOD UPON THE CROSS. My feelings as a Christian point me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them. This is God's truth! He was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.


"When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand
years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people is plundered and exploited."

I see nothing Christian in the above attitude.

 

[Harry3142]

This is simply another example of a person's using the cross of Christ as a smokescreen in order to hide his own agenda of hatred and antisemitism. If he wants to blame someone for Christ's suffering, let him look in his own mirror, and he will see the person whom he should blame.

 

[Radagast]

This is simply another example of a person's using the cross of Christ as a smokescreen in order to hide his own agenda of hatred and antisemitism.

Indeed. That evil man's actions show that he was no Christian. So does the next part of that 1922 speech:

"That is the mightiest thing which our Movement must create: for these widespread, seeking and straying masses a new Faith which will not fail them in this hour of confusion, to which they can pledge themselves..."