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Fascism: A Grave Threat to Freedom

Truth Reversed to Create the Biggest Lie Possible

For years academia and the media have convinced people that the conservative movement is fascist. The truth is just the opposite. Fascism has common roots with modern day progressives. It can be seen that the tactics of modern progressives are similar to ones used by fascists. Many of their goals are similar as well.

Fascism uses violence to force itself upon the people who are too stupid to know what is good for them, or so the elites believe. Hitler wrote that the masses are more likely to believe a big lie than a little lie! Karl Marx, and other misguided scholars, had predicted that socialism would naturally be chosen by workers of the world and would take over western nations. But that has not happened.

There are those who are trying to make it happen. The modern left has their street thugs in black as well––“Antifa” which stands for “Anti Fascist.” They claim to oppose fascism but they are fascist! They misname themselves to cloak their actual purpose and function, which is to intimidate their opposition. The future forms of socialist empires might choose new labels to further deceive but will be in truth some form of the old, discredited fascism.

Freedom Within the Law is What God Wants

God allows us to have free moral agency. Repressive large governments hinder individual freedom. The first such repressive government in human history was created by Nimrod in Babylon. A dictatorship that can suddenly swoop down and confiscate anything it wants is in violation of the commandment against stealing. Nations with freer markets are more prosperous, which shows the inviolability of God’s Laws. The younger generations don’t understand the tents of fascism.

Conservative Beliefs

  • Strong belief in Individual rights
  • Free speech prized
  • Freedom of religion
  • Small government
  • Freedom of the press
  • Right to bear arms
  • Local control of education
  • Lower taxes
  • Pure Capitalism
  • Private healthcare between patient and doctor

 

Socialist/Fascist Beliefs

  • Statism––the state is more important than the individual or any nominal religion
  • Big government controls everything from speech to thoughts
  • Only Politically Correct speech is allowed
  • Press must support the Leader and their socialist ideas
  • Arm the government while disarming the people
  • Higher taxes to support big government
  • Nationalization of industry
  • Government run healthcare

 

Communism was a more extreme form of Socialism in which one could have no private property, while fascism was less extreme and therefore, not as bad economically. However fascist governments are large and try to centralize all decision making so the leader can have more control.

It is erroneous to consider conservatism as fascist or Nazi. Remember the name of the NAZI party is The National SOCIALIST Party. They were not God fearing conservatives or any kind of conservatives for that matter!

The Beginning of Fascism

Today people misunderstand the term Fascism. We might think of any dictatorship as an example of fascism. But fascism has some specific factors that are not found in all dictatorships or autocratic monarchies.

It began in 1919, as Mussolini started a powerful movement in Italy. He hated Democracy and championed order and a large, all powerful central government. Fascism is a form of Statism. The state is more important than the individual.

He also celebrated the use of violence. Mussolini was born in 1883 to a socialist father that named him for a famous Mexican socialist revolutionary. He was expelled from school twice for stabbing a classmate. He was a man of action. He wanted to be a socialist leader, one that could control everything (including the economy).

Mussolini was a charismatic speaker. He became a socialist leader and editor of several Socialist publications. He differed from other Socialists in that he openly supported direct violence to achieve political goals. Violence, he thought, “turned the wheels of history.”

WWI found Italy neutral. Mussolini believed that the violent upheaval of the Great War would advance the Socialist revolutionary cause. He supported entry into the war. The French government secretly paid him and others of influence to encourage Italy to enter the war on the side of the western allies.

His war position separated Mussolini from most of the other Socialists. Italy lost half a million men in the war and even though on the victors side, they were not given any territorial gains in the Versailles Treaty. This set off post war upheavals in Italy and led to unstable governments and street clashes of various parties.

They fed off having an enemy or bogey man to stir up the crowds. Many of their members were former storm troopers from WWI. Their motto was “I don’t give a —-”! They used the famous Roman salute, jutting out of the right arm and hailing their leader. Just as ancient Romans would say, “Hail Caesar,” so the fascists saluted their leader, “Il Duce” (the Boss). Mussolini’s name had to be written in all capitals.

Many European leaders would try to bring back the full power of the Holy Roman Empire. Mussolini and Hitler thought they had achieved it for a few short years.

Mussolini’s Fascist Party fought with the red shirt thugs of the Communist Party. The fascist street thugs wore black shirts. The Fascist Party organized their own street thugs. He named the party after the term “Fascio,” an ancient Roman Empire military standard. Mussolini was symbolically bringing back to life the Holy Roman Empire.

This concept of the fourth and final beast of the Roman Empire has never left European thinking. Europe has always had a certain fascination and connection to the Holy Roman Empire. The current EU had its start as the Treaty of Rome. This Empire, dominant in the past, is still sort of around in loose form and will arise again as a great end-time empire.

Rev. 17:8, “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

Fascism fused three elements together: Socialism, Nationalism and revolutionary fervor, spiced with heavy violence. It was more of a corporate type of socialism. They got people to betray others in a cold hardhearted drive to crush all opposition. The black shirts brutalized opposition parties.

In October 1922, they used the bogey men of the Communist Party to stir up support. The Fascists claimed that Communists were about to take over Italy. In a preemptive strike, they would march and congregate into greater and greater numbers as they closed in on Rome. If the Fascists were not given power, they would take it.

The king caved and allowed Mussolini to become Prime Minister. He slowly consolidated his power in stages, and in 1926, ended parliamentary elections. By 1929 he had gained absolute power. Intimidation in this evil world does work.

Mat. 24:10-12, “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

One of the fascist’s critics accused them of “Totalitarianism.” Mussolini found the term to his liking, surprisingly. He wanted total power over the population. People could not simply allow his power, but must totally and enthusiastically support the Fascist regime––or else.

They used the media to deify the “Leader.” Media supported the “Leader” totally. The media propaganda machine worked hard to deify Mussolini as “Il Duce.” People, even children, were taught to spy on each other to find the non-believers. This is the beginning of the infamous, all seeing “Big Brother.” Youth were regimented into fascist organizations like Sons of the Wolf.

However Mussolini was not as totalitarian as Hitler and Stalin. Totalitarianism to Mussolini meant the state embodied in him took care of everything. He wanted total control but found himself forced to share some power with the King and the church.

He later signed a concordant with the Catholic church giving them much control of education. Throughout his twenty years of power he killed few people compared to Hitler and Stalin. He even allowed people to leave the country including Jews.

Global Radicals Desire an All-Powerful Super state

What do many of the globalists desire? Do they want a world-spanning super state? Many of them that believe in such a state are revolutionaries. They believe that the failure of all previous socialistic states was because the wrong people were in charge. They think that if they and their comrades were put in charge, earth would be a socialist utopia.

None of socialistic theory matches human nature, as history has so often revealed, but they still believe. For instance, the Pilgrims came to America and had, as an economic system, a commune. They all received the same rewards as a group. The colony was an economic failure until they realized the problem of the “free rider.”

People needed profits to motivate them. Once Governor Bradford switched to capitalism, the colony was a huge success. America has been a shining beacon of economic success ever since it switched to capitalism.

The Bible supports voluntary charity––in which America leads––but not governmental socialistic confiscation.

Acts 5:3-4, “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

“Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.”

One does not learn to love others when government forces you to give up your property for unproductive redistribution. One cannot redistribute what has not been produced. Socialism greatly reduces motivation for production, which causes lower production, which leads to poverty and suffering for all except the governing elites of a society. The Communist Empire demonstrated this beyond any doubt. Look at North Korea for examples of poverty and communism (total socialism).

The Great Deception of the Western World

If you were a Socialist or Progressive who believed the government could solve all the world’s problems, the failure and abuses of the past would need to be covered up. You would need a new paradigm disseminated to the public. You would also need to discredit your opposition.

What better way than to label Christian conservatives as fascists? Most people are so poorly educated regarding history they would not really know anything about the fascists except that they are the bad actors from WWII! This great deception is here and the worship of a big government “Leader” is coming in the near future.

II Thes. 2:3-11, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

“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.

“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

“And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:”

The media propaganda machines of Central Europe made demigods of Mussolini and Hitler. They could do even more nowadays, with better technology and a population that does not LOVE the truth.

Prophecy Points To the Last Great Roman Empire

Europe will again find a charismatic leader. He will turn the weak EU into a powerful Holy Roman Empire again. The final Empire will come to this earth. Will America be strong, secure, free and safe? Will we have freedom of speech and thought?

Looking at the younger generation and our media, we should fear the future! Will we be the ones who can see through the smokescreen of lies and poor education and be called the wise by God?

Dan. 11:31-38, “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

“And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.

“And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

“Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a little help: but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

“And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

“And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.

“But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.”

Note, this leader believes in the god of armed forces AND VIOLENCE just like Mussolini. The fascists love violence and force. They think violence is cleansing to mankind. Scary! This future king or dictator will probably be some future version of a fascist. Mussolini and Hitler were mere models of what is to come soon.

Paradise and Truth Will Be Established by the Returning Messiah

Rev 21:3-4, “And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.

“And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end.”