The Last Last Word

The Last Last Word

Excuse me, but William F. Buckley just wrote a marvelous article titled The Last Word, a book review about an author named Meachem. But in it he made a most curious statement. “There are no grounds for believing in the pietistic notion that the will of God had anything whatever to do with the advent of Hitler.” Actually I believe that there are plenty of grounds, Biblically, for so stating. God claimed that those who rejected his Son would be subject to the most severe judgments, but he warned us who were gentiles that we ought not to presume at all, for He who cut out the Jews from salvation was also able to graft them back in again. He warned again and again of what would happen to those who reject His Son. I would submit that, in some awful fashion, that He allowed Hitler to become great that peoples all over the world might be judged- including specifically His own chosen people- the Jews.
I would submit that God knowingly allowed Hitler full sway. Perhaps we might look at Job here and gain a fuller understanding. God allowed the awful circumstances to befall Job- though we who are privy to the book learn the lesson- yet Job is never given that grace. Instead he just must love his Creator as he is, and accept his fate.
But I would also submit that the God who raised up Hitler also raised up Churchill, without whom we might not have a free world left at all. Others tell me that Churchill was in no way Christian; neither was Hitler, though he memorized great chapters of scripture and absolutely idolized Luther. This I do know, God is capable of working through men, with or without their knowledge, to perform His good aims. In the terrible awful event of WW2, which Churchill spent so many years trying to prevent, I would submit that God was even there, making His will to happen.
Gosh, I just wish I could send this to Buckley, who perhaps might elucidate what he meant by his so wrong statement.
Pat