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The Blood

"I am God... declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done" (Isaiah 46:9,10). Note: I desire to make it clear that in all that is said in the following there is no intention of assailing people as such; setting any one nation over against another; nor descending to a carnal level of warfare. The one object is to get behind people and things to discover the spiritual factors which rule in and produce "this darkness". When our Lord, in His parable of the wheat and tares, represented the owner of the field as saying "Let both grow together until the harvest," He enunciated a principle which lies behind and governs the entire history of this world since sin entered it. The principle is this: as the time of the consummation approaches there will be a steady but very definite process of intensification, by which the opposing issues which have been largely undiscerned or misunderstood will become pronounced and very clear. The parable also makes it clear that, although God knows from the beginning and all along which is the true and which is the false, He does not act on His own personal knowledge and destroy the evil right away. Rather does He require the process of intensification unto manifestation, so that all intelligent beings see, firstly, the nature of all that has been going on for so long, and then, by being involved in the consequences or outworkings, are able to take an attitude to the one or the other. A further feature of that parable is that the intensification unto manifestation indicates the imminence of judgment. The greater the manifestation of evil, the nearer is its judgment. But the thing to which I want to draw the fullest and most particular attention is that that which is essentially and truly of God will become by intensification the battleground the nearer we get to the consummation. This means that the nature and meaning of the work of the "enemy", which has had deceitful purpose, will become more and more pronounced. To spiritual observers the time in which we live is, but for its horrors, almost fascinating in the uncovering development which is taking place. The true nature of things which have been powerfully working for a very long time by deception is now becoming clear to all but those who are gross in their blindness, or whose blindness is due to some grossness in their natures. The one thing which most people recognise about the present situation is its spiritual nature. That is to say, that it is not the upshot of merely political and natural rivalries, but that it is inspired by deep and mighty spiritual forces related to human life and destiny with a meaning infinitely transcending questions of material resources and territory. The very being and nature of God is involved in this situation. So also is His Son, His Word, the Church, and Christianity. But I want to get down more deeply to the nature of things, and to uncover the issues which lie behind this age-long conflict which is now so much nearer consummation. Let it be fully realised that this thing that has risen up out of the earth is not something new. Many seem to think that it is something which has sprung into being in the last few years, the home or fountain-head of which is Germany. But this is not so. Although it may be true that Germany has become a particular channel of it, and the vehicle of it in its present fuller manifestation, even there the history of it is much longer than the present regime. But the thing itself is traceable back through all the centuries and lies at the root of all the conflict between heaven and hell. It has now, in the present phase, been precipitated in a definite and deliberate declaration of an ideology (Science of ideas; visionary speculation). This ideology is The Ideology of Blood and this goes to the heart of everything. Briefly, this is the position. The government of this world is to be in the hands of a people or nation chosen and destined for this purpose. Such a people must be of pure and unmixed blood. It cannot and must not be Semitic blood, and particularly not Jewish as amongst Semitic peoples. It cannot be Negro blood. It must not be Latin blood. It can only be Nordic or Teutonic - and this means German blood. Hence the hatred of the Jews and the abomination of intermarriage with them. Hence also the contempt for the Latin peoples; the despising of the Negro; the fear of the Anglo-Saxon - as the greatest and nearest rivals. This also lies behind the antagonism toward Christianity, because it is said to be of Jewish origin for one thing. But of course there is a deeper reason, as we shall see, yet one which may not be recognised by those concerned. Above all, perhaps the feature most significant is the repudiation of Christ, and the determination to supplant Him and give His place to another. Lest anyone should think that all this is of our own imagination or imputation, some quotations will be given from the writings which constitute the charter of this ideology. And let it be understood that there are literally hundreds of books by numerous German authors on this philosophy, not only by its chief exponent and high priest - Rosenberg. Here are some specimens -