Satan, You Lose!

July 21, 2024
 
Reflections From the Heart of Allan Redenius
When I was a youngster in the early 1960’s, I delivered the morning Des Moines Register newspaper.  I wasn’t much for news at twelve years old, but I remember being captivated by the reports of the Adolf Eichmann trial.  Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi high official responsible for the killing of millions of Jews.
 
Then, while watching television, on rare occasions, there would be documentaries of places like Auschwitz concentration camp.  The images I saw and that were embedded into my memory, are too graphic to write for this reflection.  My parents were always quick to hustle me out of the room, but still, you cannot unsee something once seen.
 
Not believing a human could subject another human to such atrocities, I chose not to believe what I saw.  Then one of my friends, who served under General Patton told me about liberating a certain Jewish concentration camp.  He described the horrors he witnessed.  He even had photos of bodies stacked up like cords of wood ready to be pushed into a mass grave.  He said, “The Americans made those Nazi guards dig individual graves in which to bury the dead.”
 
Ever since WW II, the Jews have adopted this motto, “Never again.”  It reminds them to never again allow themselves to be victimized as they were by the Nazis.
 
In the Book of Esther, General Haman tried to exterminate all the Jews.  Why?  If the Jews were no more, then there would be no lineage from which Jesus could be born.  Obviously, this was a tactic of Satan.  In the 1940’s, Adolf Hitler tried to once again exterminate the Jews.  Why?  The great tribulation to come at the end of the age is God’s way of bringing millions of unsaved gentiles to Himself.  But the primary purpose of the tribulation is to call the Jews to Jesus.  If there are no Jews remaining on earth, then there is no urgent reason for God to initiate the tribulation and put an end to the world.  If that would happen, Satan’s authority over earth is extended.
 
So now maybe we can understand a little better why the sudden explosion of worldwide anti-semitism. It is once again, a Satanic movement to postpone Jesus’ return to earth.
 
I’ve got news for you, Satan.  You lose!
 
Looking at the world through the lens of the Bible,
Pastor Allan
 
 
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