Chapter 8: Unmasking One of Satan's Choice Ambassadors
Chapter Eight Unmasking One of Satan's Choice Ambassadors Did you know?
"Few people are more misunderstood in America than Martin Luther. For most Americans Luther is seen as a kind of German counterpart to America's founding fathers, fighting for free speech and religious tolerance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Luther's courageous and vital role in successfully toppling the Catholic Church from its dominant position in Europe did not lead to a world view that endorsed civil liberties. Luther's replacement for the Catholic church in Germany was a religious system dominated by the power of the German kings and princes, the beginning of a process of political fragmentation in Germany that would lead to the Thirty Years War, and one of the greatest disasters in modern European history where one third of all the German people would perish under appalling circumstances.
The legal structure of the Lutheran church in Germany, which he created, would be a major factor in Nazi Germany. The Lutheran pastors were employees of the Prussian state. In other words they got their paychecks from Hitler.
Luther was a man consumed by various hatreds. His hatred of the Catholic Church was accompanied by an equally virulent hatred of both democracy and the Jews. During the peasants revolt Luther called for the most ferocious measures possible by the German nobles to wipe out the power of the peasants.
Luther was totally opposed to the idea of religious freedom. Had a modem American evangelist like Billy Graham come to Saxony, he would not have met a happy fate. Luther hated the Baptists and urged that they be executed. Luther also strongly supported the use of the death penalty for many other Christian "heresies."
In his vitriolic book, The Jews and Their Lies, Luther called for the expulsion of the Jews from Germany, and actually succeeded in convincing his patron, the Elector of Saxony, to expel all Jews from his territory. It is almost certain that the Nazis got the idea for Kristall Nacht from Luther since he very specifically called for the burning down of all synagogues in Germany. The Nazis carried out Luther's wishes on his birthday in 1938.
Horrible and criminal as Luther's ideas were, it is very important to see that they were hardly isolated points of view. The British and the French monarchies had already adopted such policies during the High Middle Ages. In 1492 the Spanish monarchy carried out the appalling expulsion of over 300,000 Jews as well as committing a long series of war crimes against its Islamic subjects.
In fairness, Luther did not call for the total extermination of the Jews. However, there is no doubt he paved the way for this crime. Hitler repeatedly compared himself to Luther, and his works were reprinted and distributed all over Germany by the Nazis." (www.worldfuturefund.org)
That Luther hated the Jews. The following are some excerpts from the "Medieval Sourcebook: Martin Luther (1483-1546) The Jews and their Lies, Excerpts (1543)."
"Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools...
Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them. Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.
...but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!
I brief, dear princes and lords, those of you who have Jews under your rule-- if my counsel does not please you, find better advice, so that you and we all can be rid of the unbearable, devilish burden of the Jews, lest we become guilty sharers before God in the lies, blasphemy, the defamation, and the curses which the mad Jews indulge in so freely and wantonly against the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, this dear mother, all Christians, all authority, and ourselves. Do not grant them protection, safe-conduct, or communion with us.... .With this faithful counsel and warning I wish to cleanse and exonerate my conscience.
Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew.
However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter, or by other neighborly deeds.
...I shall give you my sincere advice:
First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them...
Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country...
Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.
Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach...
Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let them stay at home.
Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping. The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other means of earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed from us all they possess. Such money should now be used in no other way than the following: Whenever a Jew is sincerely converted, he should be handed one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred florins, as personal circumstances may suggest. With this he could set himself up in some occupation for the support of his poor wife and children, and the maintenance of the old or feeble. For such evil gains are cursed if they are not put to use with God's blessing in a good and worthy cause.
Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Genesis 3:19}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.
But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews' synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret...
Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward.
I wish and I ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people, as suggested above, to see whether this might not help (though it is doubtful). They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did in the wilderness, slaying three thousand lest the whole people perish. They surely do not know what they are doing; moreover, as people possesed, they do not wish to know it, hear it, or learn it. There it would be wrong to be merciful and confirm them in their conduct. If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all their other vices and thus merit God's wrath and be damned with them. I have done my duty. Now let everyone see to his. I am exonerated."
These, my dear friend, are the words of Martin Luther, Master of Deceit! It amazes me how anyone who believes the Bible would even consider being identified with Martin Luther, his philosophy, and his hatred for God's chosen people, the Jews. This man has been dead for over 460 years and Satan loves Luther for hating the Jews, just as he does.
Luther's Attitude Toward Children.
Luther's philosophy was, "It is my way or the highway!" If you didn't obey Luther, you were to be punished. I would like to draw your attention to Luther's Large Catechism, on Pages 6 and 7. Luther states that the most necessary parts of Christian instruction are as he lists them, which your children better memorize or be punished!
"THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD."
Luther then lists ten commandments. Has your pastor taught you that Luther lied, when he said "the Ten Commandments OF GOD." If all the Ten Commandments given by Luther were of God; then why don't we find the Second Commandment in Luther's list?
Open your Bible to Exodus 20:3-17, where God's Ten Commandments are given and you will discover in Exodus 20:4-5, the Second Commandment of God, which Luther omitted in his Catechisms. Then, to cover his deceit, he takes the Tenth Commandment and makes two commandments out of it. He then lies to you, saying that these are God's Ten Commandments. How deceptive and Satanic!
"THE CHIEF ARTICLES OF OUR FAITH"
It contains 107 words. I have quoted it below; but, you may read it for yourself on Page 7 of the Large Catechism.
"1. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
2. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary; suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; He descended into hell; the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
3. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen." THE PRAYER, OR "OUR FATHER," WHICH CHRIST TAUGHT.
Essentially, this is the Lord's Prayer as in Matthew 6:9-15. This is composed of approximately 71 words.
"...Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation,
7.But deliver us from evil: [For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.] Amen."
Contrary to the opinion of a few ignorant people, Martin Luther was not a kind, nice, loving man; but, rather mean and cruel when it involved religion. After listing the above three parts as Luther gives in them in his Catechism; he, then, gives his instruction concerning them.
"These are the most necessary parts of Christian instruction. We should learn to repeat them word for word. Our children should be taught the habit of reciting them daily when they rise in the morning, when they go to their meals, and when they go to bed at night." (Large Catechism, P.7, par 15,16a).
Notice, "Luther, the Dictator," says they are to repeat all three at least three times a day. Then Luther tells what punishment should be given to children who cannot repeat all three, word for word. Let Luther speak for himself.
"Until they repeat them, they SHOULD NOT BE GIVEN ANYTHING TO EAT OR DRINK." (Large Catechism, P.7, Par. #16b).
This is unbelievable! Here is a dictator in action. Has Luther taken away the rights of the parents to decide what portions of the Bible or what Scriptures they want their children to memorize? Do not the parents have the responsibility to decide what and if any punishment is to be rendered?
Now, as we continue in the Catechism, we go beyond "Luther, the Dictator" to another phase of Luther's philosophy, which is as I have said, "My way or the highway." In other words, if you are employed by Luther and do not believe the way he does, you are to be fired! Let us let Luther speak for himself.
"Every father has the same duty to his household; HE SHOULD DISMISS men-servants and maid-servants IF they do not know these things and are unwilling to learn them. Under no circumstances should a person be tolerated if he is so rude and unruly that he refuses to learn these THREE PARTS..." (Large Catechism, P.7, Paragraphs 17, 18).
Martin Luther did not believe in religious freedom for all. He did not respect the rights and free will of others. He was a very hateful man, as he displayed towards the Jewish people.
He wanted employers to fire their employees if they refused to believe as he did. It is unthinkable that Luther would withhold food and water from children until they memorized, word for word, the three articles Luther listed.
Then, he lied about God's Ten Commandments, and this is the man Lutheran preachers pawn off to the unsuspecting public as a great theologian and liberator! This man was a tyrant, a dictator, and had no respect for the rights of others who disagreed with his religious philosophy.
Every Christian in America ought to be so thankful to God that Luther is not living today in America. He would be persuading the leaders here to persecute the Jews, just as he did those in power in Germany during the World War II years and before, by his writings. No wonder Hitler loved Martin Luther and passed out his literature throughout Germany, as they both hated the Jewish people. The end result was the extermination of over six million people; men, women, and children. Since this hatred of the Jewish people came from a preacher, the German people believed it to be justified.
If Luther could be released out of the torments of Hades, I can only imagine him screaming at the top of his voice, "I was wrong! Baptism didn't save me and it will never save you. I should have loved the Jewish people, instead of hating and hurting them. I should have followed Paul's love and attitude as described in Romans 10:1."
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved."