Why the Mighty Fall

Why the Mighty Fall

Adolf Hitler was one of the great and charismatic leaders of the 20^th century. Unfortunately he was an evil man.

He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. From 1933 to 1945 he was elected Chancellor of Germany and took over as a dictator in Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Hitler was a charismatic visionary who convinced the people they were a superior race and destined to rule the world. He became their god. His anti-Semitic policies and racially motivated ideology resulted in the death of at least 5.5 million Jews, and millions of other people whom he and his followers deemed geneneticaly inferior. Without God the people lost their moral compass, their morality

He invaded Poland in September 1939 resulting in the of birth of World War II. In Europe under Hitler’s rule in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa.

Hitler took personal command of all military forces despite his lack of experience. He made the strategic error of trying to fight the war on three fronts; Russia on the eastern front, the Allied forces on the southern and western fronts. In 1943, Germany was forced onto the defensive and suffered a series of escalating defeats. It is generally believed on April 30, 1945 Hitler committed suicide and his cremated corpse was buried in unmarked grave. Germany was a pile of rubble.

Hitler did not lose the war for lack of military acumen but because his ideology was based on a faulty premise. While Hitler thought he was invincible, God was in control “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, as people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in. He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown and, no sooner do they take root in the ground, then he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.” The war simply proved that people cannot worship any god and ignore the true God. As a nation they needed God’s moral compass to flourish.

After losing the war the German people looked for a new god. They found him in materialism. With a strong work ethic they rebuilt their country using the government to establish mortality though laws rather than using a moral compass directed by God. Today under materialism, Germany has the strongest economy in Europe. The German people have learned to love their job security, job benefits, and time off from work. So how long will it be before their culture collapses?

The German nation will not fail because of the economy. It will fall because as a godless country it will not obey the Lord’s command “Be fruitful and increase in number” Genesis 1:28. The birth rate in Germany today is 1.4 children per female. It takes at least a rate of 2.2 to maintain the population. At the present rate demographics will change and there will be comparatively few younger people to support a large aging population. The nation will crumble.

Today Europe is comfortable with its materialism and is one of the most gospel hardened areas of the world. They are comfortable without the God of their history. We know from biblical history that nations will come and nations will go but the Word of God is eternal.

Pray for Europe and for the missionaries who serve there.