"People didn't care about the truth ..."
And Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, called it "The Big Lie" ...
And he said, "People didn't care about the truth." "Tell the story and keep on telling it," because people didn't care about truth.
They just wanted what they wanted for themselves and it basically didn't matter if what they said to the German people was truth.
And with this "big lie" (as Goebbels called this) they began to speak lies about Jews and later gather up Jews and put them into the concentration camps to work them to death or exterminate them in gas camps. ("Netflix: Episode 9: Greatest Events of WWII in Colour", 17:16 to 17:42 seconds unto episode.)
First concentration camps: 1937
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William Shirer, in his book, "The Collapse of the Third Republic", wanted to study the way nations fell and he wrote about the rise of France and then the Fall of France when they simply gave up in June,1940, to the Germans while they had an army far greater than the Germans.
He concluded there were 3 things that caused integrity to disappear in France:
* People not caring about "truth".
* Journalists were uninformed and people didn't care as a rule. Often inquiry was not even made into the matter. (Chapter 1) Same problem in churches where scripture on matter is not considered important.
* Events, such as the Dreyfus matter, (Chapter 3) saw basic "justice" withheld so the innocent were penalized. (Even high government officials in France in 1895 put documents they knew were lies into evidence to benefit themselves.)
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I see this in churches today, as well as in masses in USA. "Considering that "little things" just don't matter."
In such as: Matthew 5:32 where Jesus said the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
So they just stop speaking this scripture ... If they speak that scripture, it will cause people to "leave the church group" and with the leaving, the church group will suffer "the loss of money." And they reason "it's such a little matter".
Matthew 5:32 (Jesus said) But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
(The man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.)
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Comments by Joan Boney:
In going to church 40 plus years, I've never heard these 2 scriptures spoken in any Bible class or at any church group that I have attended.
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The apostle Paul said:
2 Thessalonians 2
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
In 1982, I was reading these scriptures and God said to me: "The falling away are not people leaving the churches ... The falling away are the churches leaving the scriptures." (antichrist)
When any portion of scripture is omitted or changed, integrity is eaten away in that church group and antichrist moves through the open door and sets up another doctrine opposite to the doctrine of Christ in the Holy Bible.
I've often heard long time church goers say, "Things at church are watered down now. It isn't the same at church as it used to be."
This is the end-time apostasy that would come allowing antichrist to come into the church group by the changing of scripture "just a little" or not speaking "that" scripture at all if people might consider that Word to be "offensive".
Not caring about "truth" weakens and destroys churches and nations and justice evaporates and the church and nation falls, in time.
(As we see in the Trump issue today where judges and the USA justice department bring issues before the public, but nothing gets done and truth fails to be identified by officials ... and it seems the masses don't care and just want to go forward to things they consider important ... like in Germany during the Nazi rule and Hitler reign ... Integrity is gone when individuals don't care about truth and justice.)
Of course God cares and will judge justly at some point in time.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
But now ... fear is rampant ... in leaders of governments of men and also in church groups.
This leads to the weakening and eventual fall of nations and churches, which is happening today before our very eyes!
Jesus comes soon and will straighten everything out.
2 Thessalonians 2
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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2 Peter 2
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
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10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
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17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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