Propaganda – The tools used by all the rulers, authorities, forces of cosmic darkness, and spiritual powers of evil in the heavens.
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I want to take you back in time to the 1930s. Hitler wrote a book “Mein Kampf” and in a section of the book, he wrote about the use of propaganda. In Volume 1; Chapter 6, he wrote, “all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward.” Since Hitler wrote about it, you would expect that he used this propaganda.
Christianity in Germany
In 1933 when Hitler and the Nazis gained power, there were approximately 45 million Protestants and 22 million Catholic Christians in Germany. Why didn’t the Christians stop Hitler and the Nazis? Why didn’t the Christians talk out against imprisoning and killing political opponents of Hitler? Why didn’t the Christians stop the Holocaust before millions were slaughtered? They not only didn't stop it, but many participated willingly because they chose to believe the lies. That it was right and good for the country. You were a good patriot if you helped in the cause. Think about this: Most Germans were “professing Christians”; approximately 63% Protestant and 33% Catholic, while the Jewish population was less than 1%. Why didn’t the Christians stop the insanity? Why did many participate? I strongly believe that it was because of the propaganda. Propaganda that produced the illusion of truth. The same kind of propaganda that caused the January 6, 2021, insurrection (attempted coup) on our US capitol to overturn our election.
Donald J. Trump has been using propaganda to try and gain control of our country. With him being President and having all of the social media platforms at his disposal he's been in the perfect place to spread the lies. Go back and look at all his talks, his speeches, tweets, instagrams, and see how often he repeats things.
His latest big lie is that the election was stolen. He is still repeating the big lie.
There have been countless investigations, law suites, and even offering large sums of money to people who can bring proof of fraud. Nothing, no evidence, but he’s certainly got quite a number of people to believe that there was.
The reason why I am bringing this up right now during Christmas is because Trump is traveling the country and continuing to spread the big lie. There is a strong belief that another uprising like the January 6th insanity on the Capital will happen again. The January 6th incident did not involve the military but there are fears that the next one might with many of the military siding with the insurrectionists.
Wars have been started by the lies told by the leaders. Those who spread the lies rarely if ever participate in the fighting. The ones who do the fighting are the ones who believe the lies or are forced to fight. Most of the ones who die are the unfortunate souls who get stuck in the middle.
It would be best for all of us to treat what we hear from leaders and politicians as lies. Make them provide the proof, credible evidence. In the US court of law, a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty. It would be good for us to use this same principle when trying to determine what is true. Pay attention how often something is repeated. Those who repeat things over and over again are most likely using this propaganda tool. When you find people repeating the lies over and over again, it would be wise to do like the sailors had to do to stay safe in the Siren story; stay away, cover your ears, and don’t listen. People who listen end up doing things that they regret doing afterwards, as is the case for many of those who participated in the January 6th, 2021 insurrection (attempted coup).
A wise man once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I believe it was James Comey who said in an interview shortly after he was fired that he noticed that Republicans had changed. They were no longer the people he knew or believed he knew. I also posted once that listening to Trump was like listening to the mythical creature Siren Siren | Definition, Legend, & History | Britannica.
Understanding how this kind of propaganda works I can see how it can change people in very bad ways; change congressmen to no longer look after the interests of the people but for the interests of the few. Change German Christians in the 1930s and 40s so that the Holocaust happened.
I want to bring up something that I just remembered. Trump was elected in the 2016 elections mostly by Christians because of a prophecy. The prophecy that was widely circulated among Christians was that god chose Trump to be president. There was even a movie produced and circulated in churches about the prophecy which I did not know existed until just recently. Back then when I kept hearing from my Christian friends that god chose Trump to be president, I was taken back by this and after much thought on the subject, I wrote a piece “Are Christians being deceived?”. For some reason my wife found “The Trump Prophecy” movie the other day and we decided to watch it. It was difficult to ascertain exactly how the prophecy came to the fireman. Satan appears to him many times and an angle of light only once. The Bible says that Satan himself can disguise himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14).
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Spiritual Warfare
10 Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, 12 because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and binding shoes under your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace, 16 in everything taking up the shield of faith, with which you are able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one, 17 and receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this end being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,
This is what happens when people listen to the propaganda, lies that are repeated over and over again!
2021 United States Capitol attack
January 6th, 2021, insurrection (attempted coup) to overthrow the election.
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