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THE NAZI CONNECTION

The 'Nazi connection' will shock Christians of even nominal
sensitivities. Adolf Hitler's name is a household word, used
synonymously with the consummate evil of this century. Gerhard
Kittels' name is a household word—among New Testament Greek scholars.
It would seem the chasm between two such men would be monumental.
Kittel edited the ten volume standard reference work used in New
Testament Greek word studies, the Theological Dictionary of the New
Testament. The NIV translators relied on its judgments when selecting
words, as do all translators.

When a pastor or 'media preacher' elaborates with reference to 'the
Greek', it is virtually certain he is citing a judgment about the
correct meaning or choice of a word from this dictionary or an
abridged compendium which has adopted its citations.

Kittels' labors on his ten volume Greek New Testament dictionary began
the same year he became Hitler's 'hired man'. Kittels' trial,
conviction and imprisonment for his key part in the extermination of
two thirds of Europe's Jewish population are a harsh fact, hidden to
those prideful seeking 'hidden' meaning in the Greek. This same pride
impels New Age mystics in their pursuit of hidden 'gnosis' or knowledge.

In Gerhard Kittel, Satan found a man who could destroy both the seed
of Israel and the "incorruptible seed" of the word of God. His
writings penned between 1937 and 1943 caused the physical death of
millions of Jews and spiritual death for untold others. Using the
cloak of 'Christianity' and 'science', Kittel was the chief architect
of the so-called 'racial science' and 'Christian base' for Hitler's
anti-Semitism. William Foxwell Albright, a prominent archaeologist and
Semitic scholar, writes: "Kittel is...even darker and more
menacing...than Goerring or Goebbels... [He credits Kittel with]...the
grim distinction of making extermination of the Jews theologically
respectable. "

This spiritual treason by the 'Christian' academic and theological
community provides the answer to the weighty question, 'How could
civilized young men of a modem culture brutally torture and murder
their fellow man and why did a whole generation of Germans sit by and
allow it?' Author Joseph Carr answers: "Satan's gospel of racial
hatred had been preached loudly in Germany for more than a decade..."
This war of words preceded World War II, preparing the minds of some
Germans for their unholy betrayal of humanity. Scholars explain:
"[T]here was a cancer in 19th century Germany. The German
theologian.. .had deteriorated to an unbelieving
liberalism.. .Understanding the moral treason of churchmen required
knowledge of the doctrinal state of much of Europe during the first
four decades of this century...the satanic influence."

Only a few years earlier, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891),
referred to as "godmother of the New Age movement", who was a
Spiritualist (necromancer - one who acquires knowledge through alleged
communication with the dead), and founder of the Theosophical Society
(an international group of occultists), exhumed her Luciferian
doctrines from Philo's School in Alexandria, Egypt. This same school
also produced manuscripts of the Old and New Testaments—altered to
conform to their esoteric teachings.

What was the source of these bizarre notions of 'Aryan' superiority
and Jewish inferiority? Kittels' 'volkish' mysticism and Hitler's
occultism were at the root of their mutual anti-Semitism. The U.S.
Army discovered Hitler's library of personally marked occult books and
noted that he kept a copy of Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine by his
bedside! Its fables of the new fifth root race of 'divine' Aryans,
battling the inferior old Jewish root race, coupled with its call for
the open worship of Lucifer over Jehovah, (who Blavatsky identifies as
'Satan'), explains this monstrous phenomenon. Without an awareness of
the contents of Hitler's bedside reading, his actions would remain a
strange mystery. Blavatsky's book was also used by the mystical
societies of Germany after World War I and was perhaps a source for
Kittels' anti-Semitism as well. One writer notes: "[M]ost of these
groups used the writings of Madame Blavatsky as their bible."

Root-race rhetoric is evident in the writings of Origen, Westcott and
Hort, showing further their sympathies with 'the tares'. Origen wrote
that the 'outer darkness' of which the bible speaks is a "black body
of flesh." Knowing that Origen, the Platonist, wrote the first draft
of Sinaiticus (Aleph) helps clarify the meaning of Hermas 'black
ones'. Horts' hours spent in Plato give rise to his comment: "[T]he
niggers themselves.. .they have surely shown themselves only as an
immeasurably inferior race, just human and no more, their religion
frothy and sensuous, their highest virtues those of a good
Newfoundland dog."

Numerous books, even some written prior to 1941, have exposed
occultism as Hitler's driving force. Adolf Hitler was a disciple of
Madame Blavatsky and was initiated into the meaning of the secret
doctrine. 'Voices' told Hitler before 1920 that he had been selected
'by God' to be Germany's messiah, saving the nation from "the claws of
international Jewry." Erickson notes that "Kittel...did see God's hand
in the elevation of Hitler to power." Kittels' defense, during his
trial for war crimes, included his assertion that his actions had been
"imposed upon him 'by God'." The God, heard by both, was the "god of
this world." (Luke 4:6; II Cor. 4:4)

Kittel recommended that all German Jews be dismissed from their jobs,
stripped of their German citizenship and their property confiscated.
He said, "[T]hough this would cause hardship it was a necessary price
to pay for past excesses." Doesn't this sound like the Antichrist's
plan for the 'un-evolved' non-compliant Christians who refuse to take
'the Name' of the beast? The same plan comes from the same
source—Satan.

(side note ,does this also sound a bit like the Liberal Democrats idea
of taking from the so called rich today, as some liberal politicians
claim to want to do to certain corporations they deem are making to
much money)

Dr. Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment, believed
Hitler was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Goebbels and his SS
began the first mass murder of German-Jewry on November 9 and 10,
1938. In 1939, Kittel closed one of his speeches with a tribute to
Hitler calling him the, "saving force which stemmed the tide of Jewish
infiltration. " "Knowledge of the killings was widespread within
Germany itself," notes one observer. As early as 1942, the London
Times reported the mass murder of Jews; Swedish diplomat Baron von
Otter also publicly reported mass gassings. The B.B.C. reported the
massacre by A.M. and short wave radio. "They all knew what was going
on." Even with such clear awareness of what was going on, Kittel
continued to write for the Fuehrer. In 1943, Goebbels asked Kittel to
write for his Anti-Judische Aktion (Anti-Jewish Action), a publication
laced with Goebbels' astrological predictions about a German victory
in the war. Kittel admitted knowing "about Jewish murders" and wrote
of his support for Adolf Hitler's actions. Kittel writes: "...full
freedom to murder...just as you should smash the brains of even the
best snake ...[This is] justification for the most anti-Jewish acts."

"But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing
thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee...Thou givest
thy mouth to EVIL and thy tongue frameth deceit• Thou sitteth and
speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son."
(Psalm 50:16-20)
Kittel: "Yea, hath God said..."
Blavatsky: "Ye shall be as gods..."
Hitler: "...knowing good and EVIL."
Genesis 3
First—we question God's word. Its authority is moved out of the way.
Then, our "impressions, " "feelings," "reasoning's" or "associates"
become our authority. We have now moved to step two and become our own
gods. Then the EVIL comes. It is a shorter route than one might imagine.

If you feel that perhaps you have been deceived, you are not alone. At
the very end of Kittels' life, he confessed that the years of his
editorship of the Dictionary and his propaganda 'ministry' for Hitler,
"...was based upon the bitterest deception of my life."

The next time you hear a pastor proclaim, "The Greek here really means
.... "(yea hath God said?), be forewarned that his pronouncements are
an echo from history past. Their hollow sound is one of Kittels'
spiritually bankrupt grammatico-historic o method of exegesis used by
today's lexicons. Carson (The King James Debate, p. 89) reveals: "I
have heard pastors with two or three years of Greek behind them
explain to their congregation what a certain Greek word means by
citing all the entries in some lexicon."

The Greek and Hebrew Lexicons and dictionaries are written by men,
"most of whom are unbelievers, " writes Princeton and Yale scholar
Edward Hills. A few examples will suffice: 1) The New
Brown-Driver- Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon's editor (Briggs) was
defrocked by the 'liberal' Presbyterian Church for his 'liberalism' .
2) Trench, author of the much used Synonyms of the New Testament, was
a member of Westcott's esoteric clubs, as was Alford, whose Greek
reference works are still used. 3) J. Henry Thayer, author of the New
Thayer's Greek Lexicon, was a Unitarian who vehemently denied the
deity of Christ. (Thayer was also the dominant member of the ASV
committee!) His Lexicon contains a seldom noticed warning by the
publisher in its Introduction (p. vii). It cautions readers to watch
for adulterations in the work relating to the deity of Christ. 4) The
acclaimed A.T. Robertson's Greek Grammar also sends up a red flag in
its preface saying, "The text of Westcott and Hort is followed in all
its essentials." 5) Conclusions drawn by Kurt and Barbara Aland of the
Nestles-Aland Greek New Testament elicit the response by Phillip
Comfort that "the Alands' designations must be taken with caution. 6)
James Strong, author of Strong's Concordance was a member of the
corrupt ASV Committee.

Just as Black's Law Dictionary switched definitions to match
progressively liberal legal interpretations, likewise most Greek and
Hebrew dictionaries and interlinears have now adopted definitions
based on Kittels' expanded dictionary, or the like, which define words
based on citations by ancient Greeks like Plato, Socrates, Aristotle
and other pagan sources. When applied to bible words, these pagan
interpretations serve, not as a magnifying glass, as most suppose, but
as a glass darkened by the shadow of fallen men.
One example will suffice. The word 'love', if defined from the daises
of our day, would elicit a definition embracing such connotation as 'a
feeling', 'an emotion' or perhaps a sexual sentiment. We have all
heard bible teachers, following a Kittel-like Lexicon cite phileo and
agapao, as the two Greek words which are translated 'love' in the New
Testament. Phileo, according to their grammatico-historic o method of
exegesis, would mean 'to be a friend'; agapao would mean 'an unselfish
Godlike love'. These definitions, garnered from the secular Greek
writers of the time, do not represent God's use of the terms.

"Every word of God is pure" and "given by inspiration of God";
reference works are not. The bible calls us to "compare spiritual
things with spiritual" things (I Cor. 2:13). Studying the context of
other verses which also contain the word (listed in a concordance)
will reveal God's definition of the word. ('Love', for example, is
defined in I John as "keep his commandments. " We are to 'act' in love,
not to 'feel' love. Going along with the New Age, new versions render
Mark 10:21, "felt a love for" rather than "Jesus loved him.") New
versions hid this key to understanding bible words by mistranslating I
Cor. 2:13. They say, "combining (or expressing) spiritual thoughts
with spiritual words." The NASB italicizes 'words' and 'thoughts'
because they do not occur in the Greek. The command in all Greek
Manuscripts is "comparing," not 'combining' or 'expressing' .

The Nazi worldview and major elements of the New Age Movement
worldview are identical. They should be, after all, for they both grew
out of the same occult root: theosophy... the teachings of Helena P.
Blavalsky (The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled).

The heartland of America was pierced to find it harbored a large
crematorium with bleacher seats in the now abandoned multimillion
dollar ashram of the exiled guru, Rajneesh. Their spokesman chaffed to
Constance Cumby, "[It is] for Jews, for Christians." New Age books,
such as Return of the Bird Tribes (p. 62), Revelation: The Birth of a
New Age (pp. 63-65) and Prophecies and Predictions (pp. 57, 58), all
predict an upcoming "cleansing action" to purify "the race." Sane
Occultism, another New Age tome, says: "The Beast whose number is
666...[tells us] we must not forget that destruction is always the
first phase of construction. "

The final chapter of the New Age Version of the story finds the pens
of the scribes lining up a barricade against the second coming of
Jesus Christ. Their banter serves as a battering ram, opening hell's
door to unleash persecution of those who are saved during the seven
year "kingdom" of the Antichrist.

Excerpts taken from:
New Age Bible Versions by G. A. Riplinger