Doomed to Repeat
Pastor Jerry Wilhite,
author
I have written this before but it deserves being repeated often or we will be doomed to repeat history.
In 1889 a baby was born as any other, innocent and pure, but in time due to his parents (mostly his father), the times, and his environment he became one of the most evil people ever. His name was Adolph Hitler.
In the late 19th century people in Germany, Austria and other areas of Europe were deep into the occult. These groups along with parental abuse, rejections in his late teens, a school of art, and other groups drove young Hitler deeper and deeper into the occult.
Some will think I am making excuses and or defending him. I am not; I am just explaining how he got to where he did and how the German people ended up accepting such an evil person. Some will say it was due to the occult that Hitler was able to hypnotize the populace but that is not true.
It happened that Germany was deep in debt and beaten and humiliated from WWI. Then by the 30's the depression and the other factors that had preceded the 30's caused a need, a desire of the German people to have their failure and plight explained and a way out provided. Adolph Hitler gave them both by convincing them it was all the fault of so-called lesser people, people whom he said were nothing more than sub-humans, mostly the Jews. He would use this later to suit whatever need he had to get rid of a particular group of people like the Polish, Russian, etc.
At the time Hitler offered hope and renewed excitement to the German people. The problem was the German people were so proud and so hungry for success and prosperity that they did not listen to Hitler well enough. They did not dig deep enough into whom he was, his past, and the Nazis party. They just accepted that here was their hope and possibility to be saved.
I know for the Germans it sounds better if some form of hypnotism was used to get them to follow but it would not be totally true. Even though Hitler was more than likely an articulate and charismatic speaker that would only be a very small part of why they followed. They followed out of choice and because he addressed their most basic needs.
Just as today leaders use our most basic needs to get us to vote for them; we have to be careful or what happened in 1930's Germany where Hitler became chancellor then dismantled democracy could happen anywhere.
Most of Hitler's drive is what I have explained time and time again. He thought his own free will and desire were driving him, but actually he was driven by evil, as in Satanic. The entire revival of the occult in the late 19th century was due to this.
Paul wrote that we have to be careful of our imaginations and thoughts because there are two forces at work in the earth. One forces his thoughts on us and the other is waiting for us to seek His thoughts. The problem is that if you do not know this then you can very easily fall into the previous thoughts, the ones that are forced on us. Satan can not be every where at once and he can not directly influence all of us, so he uses those he can that will reach the most people to get his idea out to the most.
2 Corinthians 10
5. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
God repented of creating mankind and was ready to destroy everything because of the wickedness of man, which of course starts as a thought.
Genesis 6
5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Now some will say, "See thoughts can be sinful and are where sin starts and all thoughts are sinful."
Even though this is partly true sin starts by accepting the thoughts then speaking them and acting upon them. Jesus said we would be judged by every word from our mouth, not every thought we had. He knew that a thought is nothing until we accept it and act upon it starting with words. All evil and sin start as words then grow into action. Even if we struggle with thoughts, as long as we submit to God and not the world, the thoughts are nothing more than just that, thoughts. But if a thought or imagination is allowed to take seed in us we then have lost the battle in that area and need to repent because from that seed will come fruit from our mouth and in time action. This is best seen in those who cursed all the time before meeting the Lord and afterwards find themselves not cursing at all or very, very limited.
Matthew 4
35. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
36. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Jesus did give us a way out of this problem.
Matthew 4
4. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
John 14
26. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
If we believe then we should know that God is real and if He is real (and He is) then His word is real and we should follow it.
How do I know that the one I am listening to is God or Satan since Satan can imitate light?
1 John 4
1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
We either make the effort to listen and be obedient and cast down imaginations that go against the knowledge of God or we fall away and suffer through this life with no hope of anything to come. Beware of men, all men especially scholars, even in Jesus day these were ones to beware of because most operate under an understanding of interpretation not divine understanding.
Matthew 23
13. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
The word Christ means anoint. Jesus said in Luke 4:38 He is anointed with the Spirit of God. So to be of Christ is to be of the Spirit of God and in John 4:23-24 we are told God is a Spirit.
1 John 2
27. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
There are two groups today those who want to believe and those who do not and try to explain everything away with science. The latter group is dangerous because they are following a lie imparted by the enemy and do not even realize it. They think they are free thinking people and nothing influences them except their own thoughts.