CENTURY OF GENOCIDE 1850-2000 AD
Daniel 2:44 “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.”
To understand a culture one must understand something of the underlining belief system that it has. Entering the 20th century we see that there was a weakening of the theology that eventually bred many false cults. True Christianity began to withdraw because of ‘weak theology.’
In every culture we have what we call the “opinion makers.” These are people who use words to make a living: teachers, lawyers, politicians, journalists, etc. that have the tendency to form the thinking of the populace.
True Christianity withdrawing from these professions has been catastrophic, because God’s opinion was not being made known. Another group of people who use words are the church pastors and teachers of the Word, etc. However, their voice in the world of opinions was silent and so eventually was silenced.
Sensing weakness and apathy, the infamous butchers of the 20th century took their turn on the world stage, attempting to smother the light – Karl Marx, Engels, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, etc. This ancient paganism (for there is nothing new under the sun) came in with modern weapons of mass destruction that resulted in the death of millions.
At this time there was another group of people promoting communism. They discovered that they needed to destroy Christianity if they wanted to bring in Marxism and to do so they had to take over the media and education. This is what is happening today.
In the 20th century there has been more mass murder, more genocide, etc. than in all of the other centuries put together. I remember preaching in Bangladesh right after it became a country where millions died in the process. Waiting to be called up to preach I began writing down the resulting death toll because of war, riots, genocide, etc. in country after country where I had been. When I added those figures, it came into the tens of millions. This all took place in my own life-time and ministry.
Coming in on the scene at this time was a man by the name of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. “You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science,” wrote Thomas Huxley. “Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be.”
Patrick Buchanan said: “As ‘Darwin’s bulldog,’ Huxley would himself engage in intrigue, deceit and intellectual property theft to make his master’s theory gospel truth in Great Britain.” What was being promoted as the ‘gospel of truth’ was the ‘survival of the fittest.’
“Karl Marx loved Darwinism,” writes Windchy. To him, survival of the fittest as the source of progress justified violence in bringing about social and political change, in other words, the revolution. “Darwin suits my purpose,” Marx wrote.’
Darwin suited Adolf Hitler’s purposes, too.
Windchy goes on to say: “Although born to a Catholic family Hitler became a hard-eyed Darwinist who saw life as a constant struggle between the strong and the weak. His Darwinism was so extreme that he thought it would have been better for the world if the Muslims had won the eighth century battle of Tours, which stopped the Arabs’ advance into France. Had the Christians lost, Hitler reasoned, the Germanic people would have acquired a more warlike creed and, because of their natural superiority, would have become the leaders of an Islamic empire.”
The 20th century seemed to be dominated by tyranny, theological liberalism and the theories of social and biological Darwinism. However, Marx would never see his imaginary, godless utopia. Hitler would be reduced to ashes and the statues of Lenin and Stalin would be pulled down from their pedestals. The Kingdom of God marches on and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.