The General Attack Agains Christianity – Part 2

Sept. 2, 1998, 10:30 PM. The Swiss Air jet, flight SP 111 from New York to Geneva crashed at Peggy’s Cove into the Atlantic. None of the 229 on board survived.

At the memorial service last September (1998), Protestant, Anglican and Catholic chaplains were forbidden to mention the name of Jesus in their speeches,.. All speakers had to submit their manuscripts to the committee of the organization for examination. While representatives of non-Christian religions did not have to put up with any changes to their texts, those of the Christian speakers were heavily censured.

The new tolerance in Germany

Until now we brought many examples from the USA. But what does it look like in Germany? In a documentation of the Liberal Welfare-Care in Lower Saxony it says: “The Christian faith-according to the old atheistic scheme-is again defamed as being an in-between step that has been overcome and is brushed aside as being a mere human work whose time is up. The term ‘sect’ is not really defined as such. On behalf of Christian groups, terms like churches, free-church, and sects are distinguished merely in how far they deviate from the mainstream denominations. By now the Christian reader can no more shrug off the impression that in Germany strategies are developing, which in the right moment can be used against Christians. Do we not see here the signs of a new ideology, that will claim power?… The ‘enlightened’ understanding of liberty and tolerance will totally push against the biblical definition of tolerance and liberty.” Inconvenient groups are defamed as sects. The ecumenical test for sects is: “Creeds living their faith apart from the ecumenical movement are labeled as ‘special groups’ and ‘sects’. We may here repeat the important thought: All organizations not oriented towards ecumenism are specified as sects. And sects bear the negative image of being altogether dubious.”

A member of parliament in Berlin said that what makes a sect is the monopoly-claim that their dogma is the only one that can save man and mankind. Jesus says: “No man can come to the Father than by me.” Then according to this definition, all Christian denominations are sects.

In German schools

Immanuel Luck, former teacher, writes in his book: “The Destruction of Religious Freedom in the Public Schools in Germany”, the following: “Concerning the multicultural society… clergies have put a special accent upon inter-religious learning. All religions are equal; all perceptions are right. This goes even so far that they endorse participation in classes of the Islamic religion… Christians, who for conscience sake refrain from attending religious classes, are being exposed to worldly philosophies and world ethics – which the state enforces and the Protestant church supports – thus facing permanent attacks against their Bible-based beliefs and life perspectives.” This former teacher headlines his conclusion: “Church and State attack Bible belief in Germany.”

What comes from the Green Party?

The chairman of the Green Party and present minister of the environment replied to the question: Why, at his inauguration did he leave out the sentence, “so help me God”? He replied, “Why should God help me? In all these years He did not help me!” What happens when leaders blaspheme the Lord? Will His blessing be with such a government? Such a government must not be surprised when Bible-believing Christians turn their backs en masse to the government.

The example of homosexuality

“What could come upon Christians I experienced already last year (1997).” Dr. Heinz Jurgen Fishbach, head of healthcare in Montabaur. As a believing Christian… Dr. Fishbach, at a Protestant convention made a remark against homosexuality as written in the Bible. Afterwards the Green Party approached him for he had ‘discriminated a minority’, and started disciplinary action against him. Luckily the charges against him were withdrawn.

Today the presentation of Bible facts is sufficient to face prosecution. “How quickly one can come under heavy fire even without the law, experienced the staff of a conservative paper in Germany (1998)… The paper asked its readers to send in their comments about “Homosexuality”. In the hot pro and con debate engaging Christians also, one of the letters stated: “Where do our children learn that it was homosexuals, who introduced AIDS? It is time to set limits on the defenders of this perversion!” The opinion of one reader alone brought criticism to the paper from the press council. The editors should have censured the opinions of the readers to those in favour of homosexuality—that, in spite of freedom of speech in Germany!”

What does the Bible say to that? Lev. 20:13. Rom. 1:27.

If we believe the Bible as being the unmovable word of God, we have, as a result a solid and clear position. But what happens when this clear expression of the Bible is being handled like this: “Signs are increasing that Bible-keeping and missionary-minded Christians will be threatened with persecution. In Europe, biblical rules and values will soon be questioned by new laws. The European Union (EU) demands the abolishing of laws not in favour of homosexual relationships. The discrimination of homosexuals should come under penalty. Those who disapprove of the legal equality of gay couples must face punishment. Consequently biblical texts (Lev. 20:13 and Rom. 1:27) must be reformulated or done away with, for these contain offensive contents.”

“Already today at the head office of the EU in Vienna, Austria, is an anti-discrimination department, where all the heads of Europe’s future meet… Bible-believing Christians will soon be confronted with the situation of persecution by the State…”

In the homosexual/lesbian paper “Queer”, a SPD federal business manager announced some weeks before the federal parliamentary election (1998) a comprehensive anti-discrimination law for the emancipation of homosexuals, should the SPD come to power.”

An example from the Netherlands

“Leen von Diijke, representative of a Bible-believing Party in the Lower House of Holland, was declared guilty for confronting homosexuals. He was fined 1300 Dutch Guildes, because he expressed in an interview: “… for what reason should one with a gay lifestyle be better than a thief? It is dangerous to quote the Bible for matters in society.” The reaction of the prosecuting homosexual groups was: “With this verdict was set a symbol that a century old book is not above the established laws of a democracy.”

The verdict from Holland only deals indirectly with homosexuality. The important thing is the court’s decision: The Bible or secular law? Which is superior? The judge made the decision against the word of God, favoring human laws. The courthouse in the Netherlands had set itself above biblical guidelines. This will probably not remain a single case. Others will follow. Further governments will enact so-called anti-discrimination laws. Biblical truths will fall in the streets.

Have we here merely a withdrawal of Christian theology (Helena Blavatsky), or has the transformation of society already taken place? “As long as we broadcast the absolute exclusive message Christ had proclaimed when on earth, we can expect to experience persecution and the hatred of the world, especially when the ‘new tolerance’ finds further acceptance. This helps explain why Don Argue, former president of NAE (National Union of Evangelicals)can say: “The tragic fact is that in today’s world Christians are becoming the target of religious persecution.”

Problems for Bible Believers in Germany

In Germany also the new tolerance is pushing its way into society. Truths of the Bible are being lost sight of step by step. “At the Kindergarten of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hannover-Vahrenwald, the new slogan was: “Jesus is the only way to God.” The Evangelical pastor Gniber substituted this already decided slogan with this sentence: “The daily being together demands constant compromises. Tolerance towards other cultures should, amidst the multitude of religions not hinder us from being a witness for the Christian faith.” But the Co-pastor Mockel, a firm defender of the Bible is against a sacrificing of the claim of the absoluteness of Jesus Christ.

“Then in December 1998, the majority of the church authorities decided to initiate proceedings against Mockel, because his work would be a hindrance to church growth… In this procedure the question of being guilty has deliberately been left out. Thus for the confronted pastor any kind of defense, namely any reference to the Bible is made impossible.”

This example shows that to believe and justify the Bible means the loss of one’s profession, social wants and difficulties. We repeat: “Christians in this world are the specific target for religious persecution.”

Order EO 13107

On December 10, 1998, US president Bill Clinton signed the government order EO 13107 with the title: “Introduction of Contracts about Human Rights”. In this benign title the American Constitution is being by-passed. This government resolution demands from the governments of all US Federal States and local levels the acceptance of all contracts of the United Nations, whether these have been approved by the US Senate or not, according to the rules of the Constitution.

One of these UN contracts, “Discrimination of Minorities” declares that to convince anyone to change his religion is a crime of hate which must be punished through international laws. It is expected that this new statutory order will be used extensively by the newly opened office supervising religious persecutions, to arrest Christian missionaries and other witnesses for Christ all over the world and to cast them into prison. This UN order in its content forbids evangelistic work among the natives of Brazil and Guatemala.

The laws of USA, and later also in other nations are being altered to conform to the human rights of the UN. The editor of the World Net Daily newscast, Joseph Farah, summarized on December 23, 1998 the following: “The present laws of the USA are, in their nucleus based upon the law of the ultimate Sovereign, the Creator and God. That day, when the laws are coming from a ruling governmental authority, we are going to lose our liberties.

In the case of EO 13107, the laws do not originate from God, but from secular governments, with the ultimate authority being the UN.” This reminds us of Dr. Hinrichs statement that the United Nation Organization is a “New Age organization.”

This connection shows the danger of this American government resolution: Laws of divine origin are being substituted with laws of New Age ideology, which originate from satanic sources. Divine influence is being exchanged for hellish influence!
Thus the telling of Jesus Christ to a third party is an international crime to be punished. Is this not the fulfillment of the Saviour’s prophecy? Matt. 10:22; Matt. 24:9; Mark 13:13; Lk. 21:17; Lk. 1:12; John 15:21.

Similar laws will also be abolished in Europe through the officials of the EU. Then will the new EU law subsequently be adopted into the laws of the individual nations within the European Union.

Mother Teresa

The thoughts described here are not only being recognized by atheists and members of Eastern religions. Mother Teresa, so beloved and respected in the Christian world, had taken part in actions which were directly against Christianity. In Rishikesh, India, in December 1993, representatives of world religions met under the patronage of the religious head of the Hindi, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. It was to be a “Week of Meditation” to discuss world problems and to find solutions for them. At the end of this convention, the Rishikesh-Appeal was formulated, which among other things demands: “The dogma of each religion must free itself of doctrinal exclusiveness…”

As anyone can see, this convention chose words exactly after the concept of the New Age Movement. Dr. Hinrichs commented about this quote with the remarkable words: “A.A. Bailey would have been pleased!”

Mother Teresa is highly respected by the Catholic Church. Already one year after her death speculations about canonization came up. Pope Paul II visited Mother Teresa and also granted her an Audience in the Vatican, even though it can be proven that she promoted New Age ideology in her work.

The new tolerance and science

“A scientist with the name of Dean Kenyon, a well known biologist at the San Francisco University was recently confronted with the effects of the new tolerance. Even though he was a firm believer of Darwin’s theory, Kenyon exposed his first quarter students to the fact that the Darwin standard model of evolution is full of problems. Kenyon did not teach creationism, neither did he oppose the theory of evolution. He merely pointed to disturbing facts in Darwin’s theory.

“However to the ‘scientists’ of the university this was obviously too much. They accused him of teaching religion and removed him from the classroom. The biological faculty of the university voted afterwards with a majority of 27 against 5, that in biology, natural evolution is the only acceptable theory, and any reference of an intelligent cause at the beginning of life is highly unscientific!”
Scientific research in the new tolerance is simply being carried out by the vote of a majority!

“Science has, in its progress lost the truth. In its service for truth in the last decades it became a service without truth. To come to a scientist in a quest for truth has become as uncomfortable as it is to inquire after a priest about God.”

“The Christian Evolution critic, Prof. Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith, who passed away 1995, always complained: “There are certain groups, which hinder the TV media, in broadcasting critical protests against evolution.” And until now nothing has been changed. The film producer Fritz Poppenberg from Berlin, had to face the banning of his 45 minute documentary. His film “Is the Bible right after all? Evolution has no proof,” was banned by the ARD, taken off the shelf. It must be the explosive power of the theme, that this documentary is being withheld and kept away from the public; that it would be harmful if one considers where he is coming from and ponders about the existence of the Creator. But sex and violence still can flicker undisturbed into living rooms. However, in Germany the hint that we have a Creator, is already a cause for censure.

The Mission of Our Saviour

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Matt. 28:19,20. “Ye are the salt of the earth.” Matt. 5:13. “Ye are the light of the world.” Matt. 5:14.

In the new tolerance the carrying out of this task will be branded as being “intolerant.” Proclaimers of the Christian message will be hedged in and persecuted. Holthaus, a faithful Christian states with amazement: “The influence of Christianity in our society is alarmingly decreasing. The close connection between Christianity and culture expressed in all areas of life for centuries, is coming to an end.” Holthaus quotes the political scientist Samuel Huntington: “In the new millenium, seven cultures will determine global politics: Sinic, Japanese, Hindu, Islam, African, Western and Latin-American culture.

Dr. Holthaus finally concludes: “We can no more speak of a Christian culture, worse yet, it has been put on the same level as ‘Western-culture’, and has been totally absorbed by the same. Its values are disappearing fast. The Christian West seems to be passe. Biblical Christianity has obviously no more role to play.”

“Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.” John 15:20. Already today the decisive attack of Satan may strike—the general attack against Christianity. The Christian religion is to be resisted.

Outlook

The danger described here comes from an altogether other side than we have considered so far. In this article the existing ‘new tolerance’ does not attack single groups or organizations. Here Satan plans to oppress all faithful Christians, regardless if they belong to a church or group. The final measure will be the exclusion from society.

This is the great goal of our opponent: To prevent the spreading of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Because: “For to me to live is Christ.” Phil.1:21. “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.” John 14:6. “I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved”. Acts 4:12. In conclusion we can say: There is a chance only with Jesus Christ. I can only be saved through Jesus. Jesus is the centre of the gospel. This message of life through Christ, the help through Christ and salvation through Christ, must not be given, but put out of sight. This exclusive privilege to have a personal Saviour is being minimized and put on the same level of other religion’s ideas. It is to be put in the background to be forgotten. This is the avowed goal of Satan.

For without an acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross on Calvary, Satan would be the winner, because all those who will not accept the sacrifice of Jesus will be lost.

“In 1993, after 100 years representatives of many religions again came together for a ‘World parliament of Religion’,., The Catholic Knitter propagates: In the face of threatening world situations a New World Order is necessary that must not be disturbed by mission works.” This expression runs exactly against the commission given in the Bible. The good news about Jesus will be forbidden to be preached. The life-giving, eternal gospel is to be hid from mankind. Is this not a fulfillment of the question directed to the disciples? “When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” Luke. 18:8.

The missionary, Ralph Shallis, who for many years worked among Muslims in Algeria, writes in his book, “Living Cells”: “I believe in the possibility of a worldwide persecution, that will be more tricky, more merciless, more cleverly operated and more cruel, than all persecutions of church history since the times of the apostles. After the shattering of our great organizations will remain for us only Jesus and His word. The more we live out this reality, the more we shall be prepared for the coming difficult times.”

“The person of Jesus Christ has not lost its attractiveness; the Bible is not outdated. On the contrary, each generation is being touched by its truths, because Christ is a reality, who has ready answers for all the longings, desires and fears of every human being. But our way of representing Christ to the world makes Him misunderstood and even invisible. We obscure His brightness through things of lower degree. It is time that we reconsider the church, our ways of evangelizing, as well as our future and at the same time let our opinions pass through the refining fire of the word of God.”

“This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:11,12.

“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors to Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.” 2.Cor. 5:18-20.

This is a further call of our mission that is in effect now as it was then. Also the promise of God is always in effect: “And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” Dan 12:3. We are never alone. God never forsakes His messengers. He gave them an everlasting promise: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Matt.28:20.

God gave another promise to the prophet Jeremiah. He was to give the message of warning to the people. A message the people did not like to hear at all. Consequently, Jeremiah was very unpopular because of his message. But we find here a very interesting parallel: “And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.” Jer. 15:20.

Perhaps this will soon be meant for us! If the new tolerance is gaining further ground, and it seems that it is, then soon will all the people stand like a wall against the true Christians. Then will the remaining true and sincere Christians experience this promise: “I will save thee and deliver thee, saith the Lord.”
May God help us to answer His calling and face the challenge!

Note from translator: All quotes are from German edited books, not available in English, therefore no references are given. For original references contact the author.