1 John 2:15-18: Swansong

I received as a present a book entitled, ‘Swansong’. It is a collection of letters, speeches, and most of all journal entries written with imminent fall of Germany pending, from April 20^th 1945 until the end of the war a couple of weeks later.

There are journal entries from famous people like Churchill and Mussolini; Russians, English, and Italians; but mostly the journals are from everyday Germans watching their whole society come crashing down around them. Friends and family are dying or being separated from each other. Homes are being bombed day and night but if they go out in the street they may be shot by their ‘liberators’. There is no food. People sleep with their clothes on in case they have to flee at a moment’s notice. People try to figure out how to surrender without getting shot or killed in the process - just so they can eat, sleep and not be bombed. It is tragic.

Here is the thing – even though no one seems to believe Goebells’ propaganda anymore, the people seem to still love the senior leadership. They listen to the fuhrer intently, believe in his passion and resolve (even as they know the cause is lost) and they long to see or hear from him. Goerring and his associates were surprised at how people rushed to meet him, desiring even a glimpse of him, to offer their support and respects even as the world is crashing down around them.

Something similar, on an eternal level, is going on in our world today. The end of the Enemy’s time in our world is near. The end is obvious – just look around you. Just like there was no doubt that the German war effort was coming to an end and their leadership was to be replaced; so it is obvious that the devil’s reign in our world and our own society is coming to an end. We need to stop lapping up the words of the devil’s regime today just as much as the Germans needed to stop seeking out the leaders of their WW2 regime.

So with the end imminent, instead of serving the regime of the Enemy that is crumbling our world, causing death and destruction, we need to prepare the way of the Lord. When He rolls across this country and this world, all the destruction and death caused by the Enemy will be replaced by an eternal theocracy. The current CEOs of Greed, Prime Ministers of Self-Interest, and our Presidents of Death will be replaced with the Prince of Peace whose government will never stop ruling and being peaceful..

Instead of serving the crumbling regime of the Enemy in our world today, let us now pledge our allegence to the Prince of Peace.

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