The Second World War was thrust upon Europe by Germany in August 1939. Mr. Churchill again and again had warned this country of Hitler’s intentions, but all in vain as the then Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain was the chief apostle of “appeasement” and did not see the obvious danger. Only nine months before the war, Churchill referred to Hitler’s anti-Christian philosophy in these words: “This is a power which turns Christian ethics, which clears its course by barbarian paganism, which vaunts the spirit of conquest, which derives its strength from perverted persecution.”
Such were the principles of the “New Order” of the super-race that wished to impose its will on a servile world. Hitler’s avowed object was to establish an empire greater than that of Charlemagne—A Third Reich that would blight Europe for another thousand years. One of his main objectives was to eliminate Jewry, and the astounding mass murder of six million non-combatant Jews took place. At the Nuremburg Trials Adolph Eichman furnished the court with evidence from his official files of the unbelievable fact that four million Jews had been murdered in the concentration camps, and two million by the extermination squads, and the methods adopted were
The world-wide U.S.A. publication Time, trying to stress the enormity of this gruesome slaughter made the following comparison with the slaughter of beasts at the world’s largest stockyards.
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Author: F. Bilton
Keywords: Russia, Soviet Union, World War 2, World War II, Soviets, Gog, Moscow, Meschech, Prince of Rosh, Rosh, Magog, Hitler
Bible reference(s): Ezek 38:8, Ezekiel 38:2-3, Ezekiel 39:1
Source: “Christ’s Outline of World Events in Revelation,” The Testimony, Vol. 23, No. 274, October 1953, pp. 295-8.
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