On November 11, 1941, just as the German army was poised just outside the gates of Moscow, Adolf Hitler hubristically announced that the coming new Aryan world order would be a green one, “but there is one thing I can predict to eaters of meat, that the world of the future will be vegetarian!” Here, Hitler goes far beyond the idea of individual taste and preference. On this particular evening, while Army Group Center was engaged in an all out battle on the frostbitten Russian front, Hitler contemplates an eco-fascist vegan goal demanded of all as one of the major fruits of victory. Shockingly, both he and Himmler actually had plans to make the new greater Germany vegan after the war. Himmler himself had even recently begun to fancy organic farming. He was planning on feeding his SS troops with a hearty, organic diet perfectly suitable to those who were to be closest to nature to keep them strong and healthy. The harsh realities of the Russian Front, however, required that such Nazi goals would have to be shelved until after the war. Such a totalitarian green agenda and the fighting of a war of almost apocalyptic proportions was simply too much to bear all at once. Indeed, just a few months later, after the Wehrmacht had suffered a catastrophic, icy defeat in the battle of Moscow, Hitler felt compelled to reassure Navy Admiral Fricke that he would not forbid the consumption of meat and that vegetarianism was not a cardinal doctrine of National Socialism. He then went on to give him a lecture on the merits of vegetarianism and how much cattle pastures take away land that could otherwise be used for growing vegetables.
Hitler was convinced that Germany itself was overpopulated, over-industrialized, and running out of space and food, all of which was destroying the biological substance of the German people. It was therefore high time to push East in order to resolve this existential biological-environmental crisis. Worse is that since the laws of Nature demanded the survival of the fittest species, this meant that the Jews and Slavs would have to go by the wayside in a massive displacement and de-population program. In December of 1941, when the battle of Moscow was in full swing, Hitler even commented,” if I can accept a divine commandment, it is this one: Thou shalt preserve the species.” Racial species like the Aryans must be protected from extinction just as much as any animal, and a green, vegetarian diet was going to play a future role in this natural process, “as regards the animals, the dog, who is carnivorous, cannot compare in performance with the horse, which is vegetarian. In the same way, the lion shows sign of fatigue after covering only two or three kilometers, while the camel marches for six and seven days before his tongue even begins to hang out.” Such were the detailed observations of the Fuhrer during the height of war.
More importantly is that Wagner was also an ardent student of the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer blamed the Jews for animal cruelty since Genesis 1 unabashedly teaches that man was made in God’s image, and hence commissioned to rule over nature, “the fault lies with the Jewish view that regards animals as something manufactured for man’s use.” Schopenhauer, perhaps the original animal rights guru of Europe, was appalled by the fact that John the Baptist wore animal skins. He was also Hitler’s favorite philosopher. Wagner was also an avid reader of Ernst Haeckel’s Social Darwinian ecology that was extremely popular in Germany in the latter half of the 1800’s. While Hitler eschewed some of Haeckel’s political views, his Germanic Social Darwinism would become the racist ‘scientific’ foundation upon which National Socialism was built. Moreover, Schopenhauer and Haeckel were also enthusiastically read by Hitler’s spiritual father, Dietrich Eckart. Thus, Wagner’s strong interest in both of these avant-garde German scholars would all but guarantee that in spite of Hitler’s inconsistency on green socialist issues, environmental themes would still play an important role in National Socialism. Hitler himself asserted that, “whoever wishes to comprehend National Socialism must first know Richard Wagner.”
More shocking still is how literal Hitler took this ‘prophecy’ to heart. In fact, in the horrific Nazi documentary film “The Eternal Jew”, the Jewish ritual slaughter of cattle and sheep was graphically shown right at the climax of the film to heighten its effect. Neither does it fail to mention that the Mosaic Law has “no love or respect for animals in the Germanic sense.” After dwelling at great length on the blood and gore, the documentary film then finally reveals Hitler for the first time and lauds his efforts on the passage of Nazi animal rights legislation. From here, the film shades into Hitler’s infamous 1939 speech where he howls before an overzealous Nazi audience that he is about to send the Jews into an unimaginable hell if they start another world war. That the Jews would soon be treated like cattle and experimental animals in the green Nazi hell that was the holocaust was thus no coincidence or oversight. The Nazis took upon themselves the sadistic responsibility of literally fulfilling Schopenhauer’s ghastly prophecy – the most extreme caricature of environmental ethics put to its ultimate anti-human test.
The Nazis were thus hell bent in ushering a new apocalyptic world order based on the literal application of Nature’s Social Darwinian laws to social and political life. Hence, just like Marxism, which envisaged a secular eschaton of socialistic utopia at the end of history based on the literal socio-economic conditions on the ground, so the Nazis countered them with the much heralded 1,000 year Reich based on literal biology and ecology, which Himmler’s SS especially took to heart with their “Blood and Soil” doctrine. German blood and German soil were principles that were presumed to be according to Nature’s Social Darwinian laws of life that must be adhered to if Nazi Germany was to enjoy the eschaton. While the Marxists, however, viewed the eschaton as more open ended, the Nazis seized upon the 1,000 year Reich as the perfect counterfeit to the whole idea of the 1,000 year Judeo-Christian Millennium predicted in the book of Revelation. Both the Marxists and the Nazis thus extracted from the Judeo-Christian worldview its apocalyptic view of history, yet discarded its sacred and supernatural framework for the latest political and social-scientific-evolutionary fads of the times. In short, whereas the Marxists believed that the eschaton would be realized through the socio-economic dialectical conflict between the capitalists and the proletariat, the Nazis believed that the Aryan Millenium would come about through the application of proper biological eugenics into the fray of Nature’s ecological battles and struggles. Contrary to popular opinion, the Master Race was the best precisely because it was most in tune with the laws of Nature.
Adolf Hitler is thus one of the most outstanding modern forerunners of the Antichrist yet to date, many a Roman Caesar notwithstanding. His Nazi Party number was 555. He is thus not the Antichrist, but close. He later changed his Nazi Party membership to number seven, knowing full well its Messianic implications. The Antichrist is called “the Beast.” In the book of Revelation, he is thus compared to a vicious, wild animal. Hitler’s favorite nickname was “Uncle Wolf.” During his emotional speeches, he even imagined himself a wolf howling the crowds into a frenzy like the call of the wild. Hitler was an also an ascetic vegetarian who at one time even contemplated making Germany vegan after the war. In 1st Timothy 4:3, in the original Greek, the apostle Paul declares that in the latter days men will forbid the eating of meat. In 1933, Hitler signed an animal welfare law which forbid Jewish ritual slaughter on Passover. The Antichrist will put a stop to Jewish sacrifices in the rebuilt last days Temple. Hitler, often agitated by the industrialists, promised to take greater control of the economy after the war. Revelation 13 prophesies that the Antichrist will take total control of the free market by controlling who buys and sells with the dreaded mark of the beast. 
Lastly, the Antichrist will demand that the entire world worship him or face death. Hitler, of course, was a big proponent of the Fuhrer principle. He once told his undersecretary Martin Bormann that he will one day become a religious figure. He went on to say, “already Arabs and Moroccans are mingling my name with their prayers. Amongst the Tartars I shall become Khan. The only thing of which I shall be incapable is to share the sheik’s mutton with them. I’m a vegetarian, and they must spare me their meat!”
It has been almost one year and nearly a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble and much debris. The littered streets and unsanitary conditions still plague the inhabitants of this earthquake ravished nation.
Today’s Haitian people are oppressed by demonic voodoo and superstition. Immoral and decadent behavior abound. Their social status and standard of living is found to be one of the poorest of all nations in the Western Hemisphere. Their poverty - as of other poor nations - is because of their outright rejection of sound spiritual and natural laws. Does this constitute a “judgmental attack” on the nation of Haiti? No, of course not! It is a sound observation expressed in terms of the law of cause and effect, which is timeless. Seeking to make any “hay” of it is resisting reality and natural law.
This world in which we live is a broken egg and we can never put it back together. That is the reality. The realities and crises of this troubled and sin-sick world are hopeless and devastatingly tragic. Only in Almighty God, our Creator and Redeemer, is there true hope for all of fallen mankind (Rom. 5:12-19). Listen to what Almighty God’s Word states about you, me - everyone - i.e., the whole world.
My friend, good intentions and wishful thinking will not deliver us from this fallen world in the Day of Judgment. Only in Christ – God’s beloved Son - is there true hope and a sure expectation for a bright and glorious tomorrow. Our future is sure and secure in His eternal, nail-pierced hands (Rev. 1:17-18)! Do you truly know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?
