D-Day 6th June, Why Another D-Day Is Needed. The My Pillow Controversy. Which Way? Update.

Why Another D-Day Is Needed

“On D-Day, the Western allies launched an invasion to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. An understanding of history shows why another invasion is necessary.

U.S. soldiers charge the beaches of Normandy under Nazi fire.  Photo: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Seventy-six years ago, on June 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops landed on a 50-mile stretch of beaches on the coast of France. Their goal was to establish a beachhead into Nazi-occupied Europe. This beachhead would then become the launching point for an offensive that would strike at the heart of Nazi Germany, with the goal of destroying it completely.  
The landing, backed up by more than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft, was one of the greatest successes in military history—though the cost was over 9,000 casualties. Once the beachheads were established, it was only a matter of time until the war was over. Sandwiched between the massive numbers of Russian soldiers in the east and the massive amount of men and military equipment supplied by the United States and Britain in the west, the longstanding German fear of a two-front war was validated. Germany was totally defeated less than a year later.

A brief history lesson

To understand how such an evil regime managed to seize power in Germany, we must understand the end of World War I. At that time, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson used his power and influence to force the allied powers (primarily France and England) to accept an armistice that ended the war on Nov. 11, 1918. Wilson then personally led the negotiations that created the Treaty of Versailles. In his zeal to secure the creation of a League of Nations, Wilson allowed his negotiating partners to dictate the terms of the treaty to Germany. The terms were quite harsh.

Mankind has spent almost 6,000 years, as a whole, rejecting God and His law. This has led from one tragedy to the next. The harshness of the treaty was symbolized by Article 231, the War Guilt Clause. This essentially forced Germany to admit total guilt for the war and all the damages that it caused. This gave the allies the justification for demanding large reparations payments from Germany. In addition, Germany’s military was eliminated, except for a small force for peacekeeping.

The extreme harshness of the treaty caused great resentment in Germany. The allies, in their desire for vengeance, exaggerated the level of Germany’s responsibility. Regardless of the guilt they were forced to admit, Germans began to feel like they were victims of the victors.

Adolf Hitler was able to use that victimhood to gain support and attain power. On Jan. 30, 1933, Hitler was sworn in as chancellor of Weimar Germany. Within a month he had convinced the Reichstag to give him dictatorial powers. He immediately began to build up the military in preparation for war—a war that would bring lebensraum or “living space” to those who he believed deserved more of it.     

On Sept. 30, 1939, Hitler unleashed his blitzkrieg on Poland, beginning World War II in Europe. Within a year, he and his Italian ally, Benito Mussolini, had conquered most of Western Europe, including France where the D-Day operation was destined to take place almost five years later. Meanwhile during the long years of Nazi occupation, the people of the captive nations saw wholesale murder, rape and plunder of their material belongings. But this reality of the Nazi regime paled in comparison to the genocide known as the Holocaust that killed 11 million Jews and other minorities. The Holocaust was the worst genocide in recorded human history.

U.S. troops entering Utah Beach on June 6, 1944 (source: U.S. Army Center of Military History).

A world held captive

Sadly, the evil nature of the Nazi regime is not all that unusual in human history. True, the Nazis took it to a whole new level due to their mastery of technology as a tool for murder—but murder, rape and plundering are a common part of the human story.

This brings up the question, why does God allow this sort of evil to exist? The Bible gives a surprising answer to this question. When God first created man and woman in the Garden of Eden, He gave them the opportunity to learn how to live a way of caring and outgoing concern for others. Had they and their children accepted God’s way of life, the misery that has ensued since that time could have been avoided. Instead, they rejected God by listening to the serpent (Satan) and were ejected from the Garden (Genesis 3).
Since then, the majority of mankind has been held captive to the influence of Satan the devil (2 Timothy 2:26).

Since that time, mankind has spent almost 6,000 years, as a whole, rejecting God and His law. This has led from one tragedy to the next. That is why we have things like the Holocaust and World War II.

Another invasion of liberation

The good news is that there is another D-Day coming—a day of deliverance! The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ will return to earth during a catastrophic worldwide human conflict. He will fight the nations that will be leading this future conflict and forcibly stop their warfare (Zechariah 14:3; Revelation 19:19-21).

The returning Jesus Christ will not just be returning to liberate the world from these destructive armies but will be returning to liberate mankind from its own destructive nature! He will bind the ultimate source of human suffering and deception—Satan the devil (Revelation 12:9; 20:2)—and begin the process of establishing peace throughout the earth, based on His law (Isaiah 2:3).

Though D-Day was critical in liberating Europe from the tyranny of Hitler, this future deliverance will liberate an entire world held captive!”         From: https://lifehopeandtruth.com/prophecy/blog/why-another-d-day-is-needed/?

To learn more about why we have evil in this word, read our free booklet, Why Does God Allow Evil and Suffering?

To learn more details about Jesus Christ’s future liberation of humanity, read “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.”

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The My Pillow Controversy

”An interesting media story during the coronavirus pandemic brings us a helpful reminder.

Transcript of YouTube https://youtu.be/TIxEWQRf7k4

[Darris McNeely] You remember the pillow guy, the one who spoke at the White House back during the pandemic when we were all shut down and President Trump was having a lot of the businessmen from the various companies in the United States come in and speak and say what they were doing to help with all of the quarantine and the pandemic and all of that to deal with it in the American system. There was a man who sells pillows. His name is Mike Lindell. He was converting his factory over to materials that would help the frontline people who were fighting the COVID-19 virus. And he had a minute to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House.

And he talked about what his company, a pillow company, was doing. My Pillows is what he sells, and I actually have one of them. After he gave his talk about his company, he then had something else to say. And he was very appreciative of the President and his efforts, but then he made a comment as he spoke to the audience and to America in this one little soundbite that he had. He said, “We should be, while we’re shut down and in our homes, we should be spending time with our families. And we should be reading our Bibles.” And that kind of electrified everybody here in the White House in the Rose Garden, the press, the national media. People were shocked, in one sense, the Bible was being invoked at the White House.

Well, he sat down and everybody was a little bit uncomfortable in one sense. The President thanked him, they went on with the business but that’s been on YouTube and it created a bit of a talk for a while but interesting. We should be reading our Bibles at a time of crisis. I think he’s right. 2 Chronicles 7:14, God says this, through Solomon through a time of dedication at the temple, “If my people…” and it was in the context of a time of crisis “…who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

It’s a promise from God spoken through Solomon, during this time of dedication of the temple at a time when there may be a need, and when people would turn to God. And so here’s a man who manufactures and sells pillows in the American capitalist system. With his moment and his time in the national spotlight, he said “we should be reading our Bibles” and turning to God. What if he’s right?”  From: https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-daily/the-my-pillow-controversy

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Which Way?

“What should we do when we are faced with different choices in our lives?

Transcript of YouTube: https://youtu.be/vKmnq1OOatE

[Steve Myers} There’s no doubt we live in challenging times. So often in our life, we come to a point where there are quite a few options ahead of us. We could go this way, we could go that way. In a sense, we’re standing at a crossroads. We’re at a turning point. And in our life, there may be one or more ways that we could go. So what do you do? How do you come to a good decision when you’re challenged in that way? When we’re challenged in what direction to go? When we’re faced with more than one option? What do you do?

Well, I think of Yogi Berra. Yogi Berra once said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” But wait a second, it’s not that easy.

What do we do? Do we look to our Creator for His guidance and for His direction?

There’s a powerful passage in Jeremiah 6 I think that helps give us directions and really speaks to that idea of standing at the crossroads. What do we do? Well, here’s what Jeremiah 6 says. In fact, here’s what God says, “Thus says the Lord” verse 16, “Stand in the ways and see.” That word for ways can mean crossroads, you’re standing at the crossroads. He says, “Look, ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it.”

So don’t just assume you know the best way to go. Seek God’s will, ask His direction, seek His path. In fact, Jeremiah goes on and it says, “Then you will find rest for your souls, your life, you’ll find the right path when you seek that path.”

And so it’s interesting that it says, “The old paths.” Well, what does that mean? Well, the word of God talks about the path that we need to take. God’s way, His direction. So the old paths are the true paths, the true way, the sure path, the best way, this is the best way to go. And so seek it out. God prescribed the way to go. It’s by His direction, it’s by His standard, it’s by His method. And that is the best way, the good way. It may not be the way everybody else is going, but it’s the way God wants you to go.

So just don’t take it for granted that you know what’s best, seek it out, seek God’s direction, and head down His path, because you’ll be sure to find the ultimate journey’s end.”  From: https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-daily/which-way

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Update.

As time gets closer to the 11th and my colonoscopy, the more nervous I am getting.  So as not to scare folks who might be facing the same procedure, I won’t go into details about my past experiences with that.  The doctor is trying to arrange for me to be admitted to the hospital for the “cleansing” part, too. 

The stray cats here at the apartments are disappearing.  One was found dead behind the apartments. It seems that someone is poisoning them, how cruel! They needed to be gone, so as not to spread diseases, but not like that.

I miss my cat who is staying in Conroe until after the 11th so that he is safe and cared for while I am getting all this done. He is an indoor cat, like all cats should be. They get FIV and FeLV from the diseased cats outside, or get run over, or kill birds. He has now been vetted (vaccinated, checked for FIV/FeLV and neutered) and I can’t wait for him to come home.  When one is anxious about something it is nice to curl up with your pet, they seem to understand how you feel.  A lot more than people do!

My oldest great grandson graduated.  First, they had a virtual graduation and then yesterday, a ‘real’ one where each student could have 6 people attend.  As his mother was killed by a drunk driver when he was a toddler, my daughter stood in for her, and I know it must have been very moving for her. For some stupid computer glitch reason, I can’t post any of my own pictures in here, only ones in articles.

Finally, a storage unit with a regular, and not garage-type, door became vacant, really close to my small one.  I keep my own excess stuff in the small one, like the extra seats out of my van, some of my dog grooming tools, extra cages, bags of gardening soil and stuff that I don’t need to keep in the apartment.  My large storage unit has a very heavy garage door and it isn’t adjusted right, so I can’t even open it.  I keep stuff for sale in there but with this corona thing I haven’t had to open it recently.  The flea markets are closed down for now and people aren’t going around buying used things.  My helper and I just haven’t had time to move anything yet, but we have until the end of the month, God willing.

Well, we “Zoomed” for the Bible study at church today, even though the church was back to normal for the first time.  Not many people showed up, I guess it got too easy to do it at home. The pastor had been held up in traffic, so others in the congregation went to distribute some things among the neighbors and have the sermon afterwards. My church friend and I left, because she can’t sit very long, and so I watched sermons online.

Sabbath things aren’t quite back to normal, because we didn’t have a potluck today.