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Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001833A
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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 I am delighted and glad to see each of you here today. 00:35 This topic is The Hitler Syndrome. 00:40 Goodness me. 00:42 The Hitler Syndrome which has happened 00:47 and which is going to happen again. 00:50 It was almost incomprehensible. 00:54 One of the most enlightened countries, 00:57 nations in all of the world. 01:00 The home of the Reformation, Martin Luther's home, 01:05 accepted willingly the rule of an evil genius, 01:10 a man who put to death horribly tens of millions of people. 01:16 The question is could it ever happen again? 01:20 Could it happen here 01:21 in the United States of America? 01:23 And some have asked, "Is it happening again?" 01:29 So the topic is The Hitler Syndrome. 01:31 I'd like you to take your Bibles. 01:33 I'd like you to turn to the last book in the Bible, 01:35 Book of Revelation that describes 01:37 the last great conflict. 01:40 And it's Revelation 13:15 01:46 and onwards, which talks about the Hitler Syndrome. 01:51 Revelation 13:15 and onwards, 01:54 "He was granted power to give breath 01:57 to the image of the beast, 02:00 that the image of the beast should both speak 02:03 and cause as many as would not worship 02:05 the image of the beast to be killed. 02:09 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, 02:14 free and slave, 02:19 to receive a mark on their right hand 02:21 or on their foreheads, 02:23 and that no one may buy or sell except one 02:26 who has the mark or the name of the beast, 02:29 or the number of his name." 02:34 The Bible teaches that in the last days, 02:37 there will come 02:38 a tremendous coalition of religious 02:42 and secular powers. 02:44 In fact, many people believe it's going to start here 02:47 in this great country, the United States of America. 02:51 And laws will be enforced so that you can't buy or sell 02:56 unless you have this thing 03:02 which is called the mark of the beast. 03:05 So people to get their security 03:08 are going to give their conformity. 03:12 I want you to remember this. 03:14 To get their security, 03:16 they're going to give their conformity. 03:19 If you're a conformist, 03:22 get ready for the mark of the beast. 03:24 But firstly, a Parable from Russia, 03:27 and the author is Dostoevsky, 03:30 one of the greatest writers in the history of Russia, 03:33 and one of the greatest writers in the history of the world. 03:37 The place is Seville, in Spain, 03:42 around the 16th century. 03:45 The people had just performed 03:47 an auto-da-fe, which means an act of faith. 03:53 Let me tell you about the auto-da-fe. 03:58 It was an invention of the Roman Catholic Church. 04:00 Catholic scholars, I don't disagree with this, 04:04 they will tell it to you same as I'm telling it to you. 04:08 It was run by the inquisition. 04:11 Do you know what the inquisition was? 04:14 The inquisition was set up 04:15 by the priests of the Church of Rome to inquire 04:20 into the way you thought. 04:24 And because nobody knows what you think, 04:28 they had torture so that they would discover 04:31 what you were thinking whether you were conforming 04:35 or whether you were a heretic. 04:38 It was set up under the reign of Pope Sixtus the fourth. 04:44 It was particularly active in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, 04:50 Brazil, and Peru, and other people. 04:55 In Europe alone, 04:56 the Secretary of the Holy Office, 04:59 can you believe it? 05:01 When they were torturing people and burning people, 05:04 they called it the Holy Office. 05:07 "What we are doing here is what Jesus wants us to do." 05:11 The Secretary of the Holy Office says 05:14 he burned alive 05:15 31,912 heretics. 05:21 And most of those heretics, 05:23 of course, would be the Roman Catholics 05:26 who thought for themselves. 05:29 Now the question is why did the common people put up 05:35 with the church 05:37 that was so totally corrupt and so totally cruel? 05:43 Why would people put up with this abomination? 05:51 And it's because they had, my friend, the Hitler Syndrome. 05:56 Conformity at all costs. 05:59 If the government tells me to do something 06:02 or if the church tells me to do something, 06:04 I will not think about it, 06:06 I will do it like the people did with Hitler. 06:11 Now back to the auto-da-fe, 06:13 back to the hot streets of Seville in Spain. 06:17 They just celebrated this great auto-da-fe. 06:21 They'd had a great feast. 06:23 As the people were eating and gluttonizing, 06:27 they could smell the burning flesh 06:30 of the heretics for the glory of God. 06:35 So as they ate their steaks, 06:37 they could smell 06:40 the burning flesh of men and women, 06:42 boys and girls. 06:43 They had celebrated a great mess 06:48 in which they had actually talked to God. 06:51 They had great pomp and ceremony 06:53 and had burned on this day 100 people. 06:59 The smell of burning flesh and the singing of hymns, 07:04 everyone applauded. 07:07 Here is the story, Dostoevsky, 07:10 one of my favorite authors. 07:14 The day after the auto-da-fe, 07:16 on the hot burning streets of Seville in Spain, 07:23 Jesus appeared. 07:25 And Jesus healed the sick. 07:28 There was a funeral going on at the cathedral. 07:32 They were burying a little girl of seven years of age 07:35 and her body was covered with roses. 07:40 And Jesus went over to the little girl 07:43 and He said the words, 07:45 "Little girl, I say to you, arise." 07:50 They were people who were blind and people who were deaf, 07:53 you know what the people were doing? 07:55 They were kneeling down, they were worshipping, 07:57 they were kissing His feet, and they were saying, 08:00 "He's come back, He's come back." 08:10 And then the 90-year-old 08:14 Grand Inquisitor, 08:18 the Spanish Cardinal arrived with the guard of soldiers. 08:23 And what he saw, he didn't like at all. 08:28 He heard the people worshipping and praising 08:31 as they once did in the temple, 08:34 but as He came, as He walked on the scene, 08:40 the people bowed down 08:42 and kissed His feet. 08:47 And then the Grand Inquisitor, 08:49 this old man of 90, said, "Arrest Him." 08:55 And so Christ was arrested 08:58 and taken to the dungeon 09:01 of the inquisition, and that night, 09:05 there was a creak at the door, 09:07 and the Grand Inquisitor came, 09:11 and Christ stood there. 09:15 I quote Dostoyevsky, 09:20 the Grand Inquisitor, "'Is it thou? 09:26 Is it thou?' 09:28 But receiving no answer, he adds at once. 09:31 'Don't answer, be silent. What can't thous say, indeed? 09:37 I know too well what thou wouldst say. 09:40 And thou hast no right to add anything 09:42 to what Thou hast said of old. 09:47 Why, then art thou come 09:50 to hinder us? 09:54 For thou hast come to hinder us, 09:57 and thou knowest that tomorrow I shall condemn Thee 10:01 and burn thee at the stake 10:04 as the worst of heretics.'" 10:08 Listen. 10:11 "And the very people who have today kissed thy feet, 10:14 tomorrow at the faintest sign 10:17 from me will rush to heap up 10:20 the embers of thy fire." 10:27 And then he has a long monologue with Christ. 10:29 Christ is silent. 10:31 Listen carefully what Dostoyevsky said 10:35 every American, every Christian, every person, 10:38 every Catholic today needs to listen. 10:41 He said you came to bring the people freedom, 10:47 freedom to Jews. 10:51 But he said, "Christ, freedom is an intolerable burden 10:56 and people do not want freedom." 11:00 Freedom? No, they want security. 11:06 Like some of you, like most 11:08 of the folks watching on television. 11:15 There's a text John 8:36. 11:19 Of course, it's completely true. 11:22 John 8:36. 11:24 Jesus said, "Therefore, if the Son makes you free, 11:28 you shall be free indeed." 11:29 Look at me, my friend. 11:32 The greatest gift that God can give you 11:34 is freedom. 11:36 Freedom to be the person 11:38 that God wants you to be, I say. 11:43 The Grand Inquisitor said, "It's an intolerable burden." 11:49 And then he preaches a sermon to Christ, 11:52 and he refers 11:53 to the great temptation in the wilderness. 11:55 He said, "You came... 12:00 and the great tempt..." 12:01 Wise person said you turn these stones into bread." 12:05 He said he wouldn't do it. 12:07 He wanted the people to live on the Word of God. 12:10 He said, "Christ, you were so wrong, 12:14 we have improved on Your work, we have given them bread, 12:19 and they have given us their souls." 12:24 He said... 12:27 The great angel said, "Cast yourself down 12:29 from the binnacle, perform a miracle." 12:34 He wouldn't do it. 12:37 He said, "Christ, we had to improve on Your work 12:40 because what people want, 12:41 they want bread, and they want magic, 12:45 and they want miracles." 12:49 Then he said, 12:52 "That is why Spirit said to You 12:55 look at all the kingdoms of the world, 12:57 You could have all the kingdoms of the world 12:59 if You bow down, if You conform." 13:03 And He wouldn't do it. 13:06 "But we have improved on Your work, 13:08 why did You come back?" 13:11 What people want is security, 13:16 wealth, and riches, 13:20 and they'll do anything, 13:22 they don't want freedom. 13:26 They want bread, 13:29 and we have given them bread. 13:34 And the Inquisitor said this, "Jesus..." 13:39 listen carefully, 13:41 "The people bring us their sins, 13:44 we absolve them of their sins, we tell them what to do, 13:50 we promise them everlasting life, 13:52 we lie to them, we lie to them. 13:55 That's okay. 13:58 But we have taken from them 14:00 the intolerable burden of freedom of choice, 14:04 we do the thinking for them, 14:07 we think for them and they're happy 14:12 and they are content." 14:15 He said, "Millions and millions, 14:17 they're going to thank us." 14:19 He said, "I know they're not going 14:20 to get to heaven, we've got to lie to them, 14:23 but they'd never get to heaven with You either. 14:28 We've given them security." 14:31 And then he says, 14:33 "Christ, 14:36 I will burn You tomorrow." 14:40 Then Dostoyevsky says, 14:43 the Grand Inquisitor goes across, 14:48 Christ goes across to the Grand Inquisitor, 14:52 and Christ kisses the old man 14:56 on his lips as a set of word. 15:02 The old man of 90 takes Him to the dungeon door, 15:06 and he says, 15:09 "Go, go, go. 15:14 Never come back." 15:22 And I didn't want Him back 15:26 because he was improving on their work. 15:30 Listen, the Russian Dostoevsky was right, 15:36 my American friends. 15:39 Most people do not want freedom of choice, 15:44 they want bread, they want to be told. 15:46 We have the greatest economy in the world, 15:50 we have a stock exchange that is booming, 15:53 going through the roof, 15:55 we have bread, we want miracles, 15:59 we want the sensational, 16:01 we want authority, we want power, 16:04 we want wealth, we want security. 16:06 And therefore, Dostoevsky said this, 16:11 "They will submit 16:13 to the dreadful beast of Revelation 16:20 because of bread, miracles, mystery, authority, 16:24 and security." 16:26 And he said, 16:28 "Those who kissed the feet of Christ 16:31 will rush to heap up the embers of Thy fire." 16:37 Be warned that the people 16:40 who kissed the feet of Christ today 16:45 in the next moment will heap up 16:48 the embers of His fire. 16:54 That, of course, is the mark of the beast, 16:58 which is conformity. 17:01 Now there is a text 17:02 I wish you would look at it this time. 17:04 Acts 5:27 and 28 and then 29. 17:08 Acts 5:27. 17:12 "And when they had brought them, 17:13 they set them before the council. 17:17 And the high priest asked them, saying, 17:18 'Did we not strictly command you 17:20 not to teach in this name? 17:22 And look, you have filled Jerusalem 17:24 with your doctrine 17:26 and intend to bring this man's blood on us!'" 17:29 And then next verse tells us. 17:33 "But Peter and the other apostles 17:35 answered and said, 17:36 'We ought to obey God rather than men.'" 17:40 Please look at me. 17:43 My first allegiance is not to the state, 17:48 it is not to my church. 17:54 If you think your first allegiance 17:56 is to the church, 17:57 then you are in the company of the Grand Inquisitor. 18:01 Our first allegiance is not to the government, 18:04 it is not to the church, it is not to a political party, 18:10 it is to God. 18:13 Amen. You see. 18:15 If you obey the text, you will be eternally safe. 18:21 Let me talk about the subjects that I found painful. 18:25 At Germany, 80 years ago... 18:30 Let me tell you about the factors 18:32 that cause the rise of Hitler. 18:35 Hitler, of course, was a charismatic figure. 18:40 Before Hitler came 18:42 there was the great German philosopher, 18:44 Frederick Nietzsche, he taught, "God is dead." 18:47 And might he's right, and Christianity is a curse 18:51 because it preserves that what should be destroyed. 18:56 Nietzsche taught might is right, 18:59 and he spoke about the coming of a super race, 19:03 Hitler slept with a copy of Nietzsche 19:09 under his pillow. 19:12 Number two, Catholic conformism, 19:16 do what your superior tells you to do, 19:19 do what the priest tells you to do, be obedient, 19:22 preserve the church at any cost, 19:26 the end justifies. 19:28 That means, that's why, especially all the Catholics 19:32 said Sieg Heil with the Protestants. 19:35 Then there was liberalism which had invaded Germany. 19:39 We don't have time to go into it, 19:41 but the Germans were the first in philosophy 19:44 that taught that the Bible is no longer true, 19:47 it's just a load of myths. 19:51 They were brainwashed with this in all the great universities, 19:54 all the great schools, 19:55 they were the leaders of the intellectual world, 20:00 especially, the Old Testament was an abomination. 20:04 So when Hitler came, 20:05 the people were ready to burn the Jews, 20:08 the people of the Old Testament. 20:11 These were probably 20:14 the smartest people in the world. 20:16 And then they had accepted 20:17 the British Doctrine of Darwinism. 20:22 That we've come from something which is nothing 20:25 and we're simply the product of time 20:28 plus matter plus chance. 20:32 Darwinism taught the survival of the fittest 20:35 and the evolution of a super race 20:38 of the origin of the species 20:40 and the preservation of certain races. 20:43 Go and find out what the full title is, my friends. 20:48 The emergence of a super race, the German, 20:53 the Anglo-Saxon people are to rule the world. 20:58 So the Germans were brainwashed. 21:01 Germany was the birthplace of the Reformation, 21:06 it was the center of scholarship, 21:08 a land of musicians, the center of philosophy, art, 21:12 and the sciences. 21:13 The every German was and still. 21:17 Every German was clean, smart, and dressed industrious, 21:22 perfectionistic, courageous, patriotic. 21:25 That's why some of us like German cars. 21:32 Not because they're that sort of people. 21:37 So I'm not putting them down, I'm putting them up. 21:41 But eventually the vast majority 21:43 of the Germans casting their lot with Hitler, 21:47 95% the Catholics and the Protestants, 21:54 they had tremendous rallies. 21:55 That's where they had the magic. 21:59 Hitler gave them bread, 22:00 they had been starving after their terrible defeat 22:04 at the hands of the British and the Americans. 22:07 They've been starving, Hitler said, 22:09 "I'm going to give you bread." 22:11 And then he gave them 22:13 the great marches with the flaming torches 22:17 and all the flags, and the Sieg Heils, 22:21 millions marching miracle, 22:25 magic, bread, Germany overall, 22:31 the power and the glory. 22:33 Hitler, the orator, who was a Roman Catholic, 22:39 promised them bread, miracle, security, mystery, authority, 22:44 the kingdoms of the world, 22:45 and he asked for only one thing, 22:50 conformity. 22:52 What did most people do? 22:56 At least 95%. 22:59 Then they had the auto-da-fe, 23:02 the death camps for the dissidents, 23:05 the non-conformists, 23:06 the enemies of the state, and the Jews. 23:09 They had the gas chambers, the crematoriums, 23:13 they burnt them the same as they did in Spain. 23:20 And they all shouted out, "Sieg Heil! 23:22 Heil to victory!" 23:25 Go and check it out. 23:26 Almost all Christian churches, almost all the priests. 23:30 Hey, we got a picture here of the bishops, "Sieg Heil." 23:36 The pope himself was a supporter of Hitler, 23:40 almost all Protestant ministers, 23:44 almost all supported Hitler and looked the other way 23:47 when the Jews were murdered. 23:51 We don't like to hear these things, do we? 23:53 It's the truth. Why? 23:57 Because Hitler offered them bread, 24:00 and miracles, and magic, 24:03 and power, and security 24:05 what Christ refused. 24:10 There's one famous German hero, he was a young Lutheran pastor, 24:14 Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 24:18 He was offered a church in London 24:20 where he could have stayed out of the war, 24:22 he was offered a safe passage to America, 24:25 but when Hitler started burning the Jews, 24:28 he said, "I'm going back." 24:31 When the rest were running like rats, he went back. 24:37 He said in one of his sermons, 24:39 "Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness 24:42 without requiring repentance, 24:45 baptism without church discipline, 24:48 communion without confession... 24:51 Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, 24:55 grace without the cross, 24:59 grace without Jesus Christ, 25:02 living an incarnate." 25:05 Like Jesus, he rejected the bread, the miracle, 25:08 the mystery, the authority, and the security of the world. 25:12 You know what he kept? 25:14 Freedom. Freedom. 25:19 On the 9th of April, 1945, just 2 weeks before, 25:25 American soldiers arrived, he was executed by hanging. 25:29 This is where they hung him. 25:33 And the question is... 25:39 If we had lived in Germany in those days, 25:45 what would we have done? 25:51 Because the Bible says in the last days, 25:55 it's going to happen again. 26:00 I'll be back, few moments, 26:02 and we'll talk about the enforcement 26:06 of the mark of the beast, the Hitler Syndrome. 26:21 In this series, John Carter will provide the answers 26:24 to life's most interesting questions. 26:26 Seven great signs of the Apocalypse. 26:30 If the dead are unconscious, 26:32 who are the beings that pretend to be the dead? 26:37 This is such a person as the devil. 26:43 What is the essence of Antichrist? 26:50 What is the root cause of this deadly malice? 26:56 America was founded by people 26:58 who were opposed to the union of church and state. 27:03 But if there's a God who loves us, 27:06 then the future is bright with promise. 27:10 For a gift of $100 US or $140 Australian, 27:14 this 13 DVD series prophecy speaks 27:16 will be yours. 27:18 Call the number or visit our website. 27:24 Do you sometimes get lost in the crowd? 27:27 Do you feel there's just no love in the room, 27:29 like everybody is against you? 27:31 You're all alone with no one to lean on? 27:33 Do you need a word of encouragement? 27:35 Do you know God? 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