The Final Solution as Nazi Eschatology The Holocaust: Redem ptive Anti-Sem itism as an Eschatology of Death
Biblical View of Prophecy/ Eschatology vs. Modern Millenarianism/ Progressivism Com m unism Social Darw inism / Eugenics Technocracy Environm entalism Postm odern Socialism New Age Paganism How does Progressivism or Secular Millenarianism transcend the Sins of the Past to obtain Social Justice?
Biblical Revelation in History is the Foundation for all Prophecy
History & Progressive Eschatology in Galatians 3-4 • Even though the Abraham ic Covenant w as prom ised, I srael in the OT w as held in custody under the Law ( 3 :1 5 -2 6 ) . • The OT Heir is a Child w ho is under the Guardians & Masters of the Law until the Date of Maturity is reached ( 4 :1 -2 ) . • The Law w as given as a Tutor to lead them to Christ ( 3 :2 4 ) . • At the Fullness of the Tim es God granted His Son & the Holy Spirit in place of the Law ( 3 :2 3 -4 :7 ) . • Life Under the Spirit in the Church Age is Characterized as Sonship & Spiritual Liberty ( 4 :2 1 -5 :1 8 ) .
The Biblical Epochs in History/ Eschatology
Modern Historiography’s Biblical Epochal/ Dispensational Basis “Any history w ritten on Christian principles w ill be of necessity universal, providential, apocalyptic, periodized ... Having divided the past, it w ill then naturally tend to subdivide it again: and thus to distinguish other events, not so im portant as the birth of Christ but im portant in their ow n w ay, w hich m ake everything after them different in quality from w hat w ent before. Thus history is divided into epochs or periods, each w ith peculiar characteristics of its ow n, and each m arked off from the one before it by an event w hich in the technical language of this kind of historiography is called epoch m aking … The apocalyptic idea becam e a com m onplace, although historians have placed their apocalyptic m ovem ent at all sorts of tim es: the Renaissance, the invention of printing, the scientific m ovem ent of the 1 7 th century, the Enlightenm ent of the 1 8 th , the 1 9 th century, or French Revolution, the Liberal m ovem ent of the even, as w ith Marxist historians, in the future. All these elem ents, so fam iliar in m odern historical thought are totally absent from Greco- Rom an historiography and w ere consciously and laboriously w orked out by the early Christians.” R.G. Collingw ood – The I dea of History , pp. 5 0 -5 2 .
Kant’s Periodization of History in the Enlightenment & His Progressivist Eschatology “In its most rationalistic form the most consistent ‘spiritualization’ of the New Testament ‘letter’ is Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone . Distinguishing the “pure religion of reason” or “moral faith” from “ecclesiastical faith” based on historical revelation, Kant interprets the whole of Christianity as a gradual advance from a religion of revelation to a religion of reason, by which the Kingdom of God becomes realized as an “ethical state on earth.” Thus, Kant has no scruples in asserting that in the entire known history of the church the present period, i.e., the Enlightenment, is the best one.” Karl Lowith, Meaning in History .
Kantian Secularized Eschatology is at the Heart of Modern Progressivism “A system atic union of different rational beings under com m on law s” or a “kingdom of ends” w here no one is used as m erely a m eans to an end, but w here a com m unity of persons are treated as ends in them selves to fulfill the categorical im perative.
German Progressivism/ Millenarianism from late 1700’s until early 1900’s I m m anuel Kant propounded a Secularized Progressivism • based on Autonom ous Reason & that the principled Application of his Transcendentalist Philosophy w ill lead to a Moral & Peaceful Kingdom of Ends on this Earth in w hich all w ill inw ardly learn to obey God’s Moral Law by His Grace w ithout any outside Political or Religious Coercion or Enslaving I nterference that w as at the very Heart of Germ an Theological Liberalism for w ell over 1 0 0 Years. Hegel taught the Germ an Eschaton had already arrived w ith • His all-encom passing Holistic Philosophy of Historical Dialectics as the W orld Spirit w as progressing through the Reconciliation of Opposites. Germ an Rom anticism em phasized Holism , Oneness, • Subjectivity & Feelings w as to be the Progressive Goal. Karl Marx taught a Com m unist Eschaton in w hich the • I ndustrial Revolution w ill progress through Dialectical Materialism & hence destroy all Class Divisions. Social Darw inism based on Biology & Race em phasized • Progressivism through Science & Eugenics. Nietzsche’s Existentialism propagated an Eschatology • w here Future Superm en rooted in an Earth based Transvaluation of all Values w ill convert Modern Nihilism into New Meaning.
German Theological Liberalism’s Anti-Semitic Progressivist Eschatological Social Gospel Kant w as Extrem ely Anti-Sem itic as he view ed the Jew s as an • Em pirical Obstacle that needed to be ‘euthanized’ in order to establish a Rational European Order in w hich its Biblical Heteronom y w ould be overcom e through Natural Theology. Theological Liberalism invested m uch Scholarship in the Rabid • Attem pt to de-Judaize the New Testam ent as they believed Jew ish Historical Particularism & Exclusivism derived from the Old Testam ent w as keeping Germ an Christianity from becom ing Progressive, Liberal & Universal. They believed Protestantism ’s Social Gospel surpassed • Ecclesiastical Christianity to now enter an Ethical-Political Spiritual Age functioning as a Spiritual Pow er in Germ any. Leading Liberal Protestants opposed w hat they considered to • be Jew ish Segregation, Backw ard Legalism & Restrictive Cerem onialism as they hindered their Freedom s. The Second Reich w as an Anti-Sem itic State under the • Spiritual Pow er of Liberal Protestantism w here Rom anticism & Nationalism and Socialism all m ixed together through the Propagation of the Social Gospel. Many Conservative Theologians w ere also steeped in • Lutheranism ’s Traditional Anti-Sem itism & Replacem ent Theology – w hich Germ an Pietism often reinforced. Yet there w ere som e Germ an Theologians like Franz Delitzsch, • w ho w ere not Anti-Sem itic but even had successful Ministry Outreaches to Jew s. And there w ere early Dispensationalists/ Darbyites that also • rejected the grow ing Tide of Anti-Sem itism in Germ any.
Julius W ellhausen’s Anti- Sem itic JEPD Theory W ellhausen’s JEPD Theory w as developed in • 1 8 7 8 to explain the Origins of the Old Testam ent – w hich w as a m ore Com plex Synthesis than Hegel’s Triad. J = Jahvistic Docum ent dates to Solom on; E = • Elohistic Docum ent dates to Northern Kingdom ; P = Priestly Docum ent codified Rituals & Form alistic Religion in Leviticus around 5 0 0 B.C.; D = Deuteronom ic Docum ent w hich w as com piled during Josiah’s Reign before the Exile ( 1 Kings 2 2 :1 -2 0 ) in 6 2 0 B.C. W ellhausen studied under Ew ald, but attributes • His JEPD Theory to Rom antic & Nationalist Theologian Leberecht de W ette ( 1 7 8 0 -1 8 4 9 ) – w ho w as a Germ an Theological Liberal. De W ette characterized Judaism as Degenerate • that devolved from the Pure & Sim ple Original Hebraism in the Beginning into Deuteronom ic Legalism . Jew s thus devolved & becam e less Spiritual & • More Materialistic in their History.
Harnack’s I mperialist German Theological Social Gospel Adolf Harnack ( 1 8 5 1 -1 9 3 0 ) w as essentially in • Charge of the Germ an Academ ia & the Sciences. He said Old Judaism w as a Relic of the Past • that needs to be abandoned for Modern Christianity to prosper in the 2 0 th Century as those w ho held onto the Old Testam ent w ere having a Paralyzing Effect on the Progress of Religion & the Church. The very History of the Bible starring the Jew s • upset the Aesthetic I dealism of both Germ an Philosophy and Religion – particularly Harnack. Harnack w rote the W ar Speech for the Kaiser • that Kicked off W W I in the nam e of Germ an Christian Civilization & Modernity. Germ an Theological Liberalism died in the • Trenches of W W I leaving a Vacuum that Secular Social Darw inism & Volkisch Nature Mysticism / Apocalypticism filled in behind. Germ an Liberal Nationalism w as eclipsed by • Volkism & Racism & Eugenics after W W I .
Kaiser Wilhelm I I , German Emperor “Let no Germ an ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites ( tribe of Juda) have been w iped out from Germ an soil and been exterm inated. This poisonous m ush- room on the Germ an Oak-Tree!”
German Salvation/ Eschatology was Secularized • Philosophically, Nazism w as based on Germ an I dealism & Rom anticism & Hegelianism & Existentialism . • Politically, Nazism w as a Socialism based on Biological Racial Science w ith Ecological Predilections. • Progressively, Nazism w as based on Social Darw inism & Eugenics. • Eschatologically, Nazism w as based on a Mixture of False Chiliasm & Volkisch Apocalypticism & Eastern Mysticism
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