Still in search for a saviour, By Ayo Akerele

“An financial disaster is the very best reward for a frontrunner prepared to seize a nation” says Dr Erwin Lutzer in his epic ebook, “When a Nation Forgets God.”

This was made in reference to the autumn of Germany to Adolf Hitler within the late Nineteen Thirties. I’ve at all times used the Third Reich — the German one thousand years phantasm beneath the Nazis — because the historic template for many of my write ups on Nigeria, the explanations being that lots of the components that bought Germany into the arms of its captors share comparable boundaries with the endemic components of failure within the Nigerian state. Let’s have a look at among the parallels between the Nigeria of right this moment and the Germany of the Nineteen Thirties.

Germany, beneath Hitler, had an evil cabal of women and men who suspended the legislation and supervised its full damage. Nigeria is run by evil cabals who’re supervising its damage and collapse. In Germany, the legislation at all times gave justice to the wealthy and judgement to the poor. In Nigeria, the legislation is blind to the poor, however pleasant to the wealthy. Germany, beneath Hitler, infiltrated the church and used cash to silence a lot of the church leaders. Nigerian leaders have awarded contracts to church leaders in Nigeria, and likewise given tax and import waivers to some key leaders within the church.

Many church leaders are sponsored and paid by actors of the Nigerian authorities. Many pastors in Nigeria brazenly canvas for his or her most popular political events. In truth, the nationwide youth pastor of a significant church denomination in Nigeria is a significant stakeholder within the present ruling get together in Nigeria. How might the church communicate the thoughts of God when it’s in a comfy relationship with the state?

Gilbert Chesterton as soon as mentioned, “Coziness between church and state is unhealthy for the church however good for the state.”

Consequently, the Nigerian church has been weakened, silenced, and compromised by the quite a few advantages which have accrued to it from the previous few governments.

The German authorities silenced the voices of the media, purchased up all media homes, and criminalized and even killed anybody that printed any story that opposes the established order. Nigerian leaders have executed a lot worse, arresting, and locking up protesters, and even going so far as charging peaceable protesters with treason and even partaking proxy brokers to completely silence critics.

The German authorities clamped on civil society teams, journalists, lecturers, and all voices of cause within the land. Nigerian leaders have executed the identical, and even executed a lot worse. The checklist is infinite.

However of significance to right this moment’s writeup is the financial collapse of Germany, and the way Hitler and the Nazis weaponized this collapse to their finest benefit. After the first World Struggle, Germany which was largely blamed by the western energy homes—Britian, America, France, and the remainder of the world for beginning the first world struggle, entered right into a extreme financial disaster, partly as a result of nice melancholy that led to the collapse of the US inventory alternate market, in the end resulting in the withdrawal of the loans that Germany obtained from a lot of her American lenders.

Moreover, the financial collapse of Germany was additionally as a result of hefty reparation prices of struggle that had been levied towards Germany.

If Germany was accountable for beginning the first world struggle, it adopted that she should pay reparations in {dollars} as a punishment for beginning the struggle. Other than different penalties and punishments that had been positioned on Germany, The treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 mandated Germany to pay the preliminary whooping sum of $33 billion as compensation for the human value of lives in the course of the 1st world struggle. As a result of Germany couldn’t afford this hefty high quality, the federal government resorted to printing cash, and growth, their economic system collapsed. Unemployment soared to the best degree of their historical past, inflation skyrocketed. There have been mass layoffs. Individuals queued for meals of their 1000’s and will solely obtain little. The German foreign money referred to as “mark” exchanged for 1 trillion Mark to 1 $USD.

Issues had been so unhealthy that unused “marks” had been used to gentle hearth, whereas youngsters used the “marks” to construct toys and castles—it was utterly ineffective. There was a preferred story within the Nineteen Thirties that described the expertise of a girl who pushed wheelbarrow crammed with bundles of “marks” throughout the road of Berlin. On her strategy to a selected vacation spot, she packed the wheelbarrow exterior of a espresso store to purchase a cup of espresso in a store.

When she returned, thieves had offloaded all her bundles of cash to the ground, and had stolen the wheelbarrow. That was how unhealthy the economic system of Germany was. It was in that financial setting that Hitler turned the chancellor, and in the end the supreme chief of Germany. The remainder they are saying, is historical past. He weaponized the collapsed economic system to current himself because the messiah of Germany till 60 million folks had been massacred within the second world struggle. To be continued

Ayo Akerele is the senior Pastor of Rhema Meeting and the founding father of the Voice of the Watchmen in Ontario, Canada. He might be reached by way of ayoakerele@gmail.com