German “Compact” magazine and AfD raided
The publishers and staff of the far right German political magazine “Compact” were raided by over 200 police in the early hours of Monday morning, 15th July 2024.1 Politicians of the AfD (Alternative for Deutsche (Germany)) political party were also included in that raid. Media and (dis)information wars are heating up and the fight for your loyalty has increased like never before since the Covid-19 pandemic. We are headed down a one-way street now as we head into the 2030s in terms of beguiling the public into following the New World Order and the coming beast system. These are the black clouds that portend the coming storm masterminded by the devil himself.
It is no surprise really that the current far left German government has decided to act on the far right alternative party but what is surprising and worrying is the fact that they invited the MSM press along for the raid in the early morning to make sure that this was covered in a propaganda type move. The offenders were filmed and photographed in their underwear in a deliberately humiliating move designed to sway public opinion that these guys are bad. Propaganda is back with a vengeance which was a mainstay of World War 1 and 2 to try and influence the people to a certain way of thinking.
Why was “Compact” magazine banned?
"It is a central mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene. This magazine incites hatred against Jews, people with a history of migration and our parliamentary democracy in an unspeakable manner."
Echoes of German past
Interestingly this has happened in Germany and it seems as though there is a fight between far left and far right once again echoing the days of the Nazi regime when the NSDAP outlawed any opposition to them including the Catholic party and the Communists. Propaganda and the fight for truth is back with a vengeance and the devil is once again doing the groundwork for his man who will appear on the scene very soon. I have heard many say that we now live in a clown world and everything seems to be upside down.2 People are unwilling to work, genders have become confused where boy is now girl and girl, boy.
Chaos and anarchy will become more prevalent, the fiat financial system we have all become accustomed to will transform into a CBDC in the next five years or so setting the scene for the mark of the beast system.
Where is the truth? It’s like we have to turn off everything and just stick to the Bible. It contains tomorrow’s news. Turn off the MSM and the socials because the controllers want you and your loyalty. I know where my loyalty lies. Even in the Christian world, it has become sort of ‘clown world’ where you once knew what you would be getting if you stepped into a Baptist Church or a certain denomination. Everything is mixed up and it’s getting harder to know what the Baptist distinctives are for example.
Some of those Baptist distinctives are: the authority of the Bible in our lives; baptism by immersion; Lord’s Supper; church government determined and run by the congregation; priesthood of all believers (no laity and clergy); liberty of conscience where all believers have direct access to God. This is not to suggest that all Baptists agree.
What is important in these end days though is that we are part of a Bible believing community because when we remain isolated this is where we can go astray because of all the mixed messaging going on. Even in the 1930s in Germany most churches aligned themselves with Nazi ideals.3 Those pastors and churches who opposed the Nazi propaganda such as the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer were imprisoned and many were killed. Bonhoeffer was hanged in a concentration camp on April 9th 1945 only a month before Germany surrendered. He persevered, never giving up his belief in the truth and he did not succumb to the propaganda. This is what it is going to take for us as Christians in the coming years and it doesn’t really matter because our life is really only just beginning as Bonheoffer said…
"This is the end–for me the beginning of life."
Opposition to Revelation teaching
I recently completed my preaching series in the Book of Revelation at church and it caused quite a stir with some calling me “obsessed”, “over the top” and saying that they were sick of Revelation. It was 35 messages long. Listen to the “Now is the time” series in Revelation and let me know what you think. See also my tribulation timeline that I have developed over the last few years. Some in the church were even calling for me to be replaced because apparently my teaching was opinion based and not Biblical, saying that God would never cause us to be martyred, beheaded or “chopped up” rather we are going to be whisked away before all the bad stuff happens. (I never said that Christians would be chopped up but history tells us that some were sawn in two—namely Isaiah. Just read Heb. 11:34-37 to see how these believers were tortured, flogged, stoned and chained in prison. Even the Apostle Paul describes what persecution he went through as a servant of Christ and he boasted about it!4 Nevertheless, why do we suddenly think we will escape tribulation as Christians? Are we better than Paul? Christian history disputes the belief that we will escape persecution. There have been many martyrs throughout the 2000 years since Christ died including those in Nazi Germany such as Bonhoeffer and Franz Jägerstätter, the Austrian farmer who refused to serve Hitler.5
Others were saying I presented the teaching like a “lecture” and that I need to just stick to the simple gospel. I’ve never had such opposition to teaching but it proves to me that I was on the right track. It seems to me that many people hate prophecy because they either don’t understand it or it scares them. Many, even in my own family do not want me to talk about it. They refuse to listen, trivialise it or at the very least are disinterested despite the increasing temperature in today’s society. Sounds like in Jeremiah’s day before the Babylonian captivity under Nebuchadnezzar. The Old Testament prophets such as Jeremiah and Ezekiel prophesied God’s judgment to apostate Judah and Jerusalem in that they would be destroyed by the Babylonians. Jeremiah even had death threats and was thrown into a pit for his warnings.6 The false prophets and officials said his warnings were discouraging and said that no one would ever take over Jerusalem instead it would have lasting peace.7
Conclusion
Nevertheless, as Peter and the other apostles said, “We must obey God rather than men.”8 The thing is, most people only like to hear good news and not that persecution, tribulation and hard times are ahead. But the truth matters no matter what and our loyalty to the truth is going to be paramount in the last seven years if we want to survive. Satan and his henchmen are going to throw everything at Christians to try and sway their opinions and loyalty and propaganda is in his toolkit. Because basically propaganda is deceit and Satan is the master of deceit.
- https://www.dw.com/en/germany-bans-right-wing-extremist-compact-magazine/a-69675389 [↩]
- https://www.sunjournal.com/2024/06/18/mark-laflamme-in-clown-world-everything-is-in-short-supply/ [↩]
- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state [↩]
- 2 Cor. 11:23-27 [↩]
- https://www.dw.com/en/a-hidden-life-the-tale-of-an-austrian-who-refused-to-serve-hitler/a-51613073 [↩]
- Jer. 38:6 [↩]
- Jer. 14:13 [↩]
- Acts 5:29 [↩]
4 Responses
Your Revelation series was very informative. The difficulty with teaching anything so controversial is that it is really hard to really digest so much information without doing some serious Bible study for yourself.
I appreciate going through the Book of Revelation, it is very timely. The irony is that this preaching on end time is ongoing as we live through very challenging times. I believe that is why prophecy is the backbone of the whole NT.
Thanks John.
Shalom Steve, I’m on your side, don’t worry about the doubters. The Apostle Paul in 1st Corinthians 14:8 said: “ For if the Shofar makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle.” (Joel 2:1) “Blow the shofar in Tziyon! Sound the alarm on my holy mountain.” Ezekiel 32:1-9 says the same thing in a different way. Micah 7:15-17 is in keeping with the warnings in Matthew 24, the Epistles and Revelations.
You are sounding the alarm as we all should. I taught this material for years, wrote about these terrible times in the Queensland Times. Covid-19 was a warning, look what happened yesterday, 17/7/24, the Technology glitch. Eric Metaxas who wrote a brilliant book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer , “Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” in 2010. Excellent book, followed up by Metaxas book, “Letters to the American Churches.” A rebuke for compromising the truth.
Furthermore, the world is right back in Genesis 6. Violence, (Hamas) among other things. Exodus 32:1-28. Isaiah 8:1-22 is a warning not to fear the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, but to fear God, we do that when we uphold God’s truth!
Be encouraged Steve. I’ve been down the same road. Shalom won’t come till the Prince of Shalom comes; Y’shua our Saviour returns.
Shalom, shalom. Robert McBeath. All true Christians must be sounding the shofar!
Thanks Robert. Excellent points