Randy Suits

The great majority of Germans abhorred and strongly disagreed with the tyranny of the Nazi political machine. The German people were subjected to endless hate propaganda which splintered the Jews and all other religious or political parties that justifiably objected to Nazi policies implemented by the mere stroke of a bureaucratic pen. The oversight and guidance of a representative government, elected by the German people to enact laws for the betterment of the whole population, was replaced by dictatorship. Dictators always suppress individual rights to silence the press, suppress and eradicate all opposition, replace educators and religious leaders who espouse views contrary to totalitarian policy and disperse and scatter families with strong religious and moral values. The righteous Jew or Christian was a threat which would not be deceived by the lies, deceit and religious robbery of extreme liberal, godless dogma and belief. For the two invaders of Poland in 1939, the single most threatening aspect of Polish culture was its strong root in religious practice and freedom. The Jewish minority was free to worship in Synagogues and Christians in living in the same community worshipped in their churches. Between 1933 and 1939, the Nazis effectively reduced the German moral majority to serfdom, its spiritual, religious, political and intellectual leadership destroyed or neutralized by fear and intimidation. It took six years for an evil Nazi Government to weaken the German moral majority before it could export those wicked policies which enslaved the German nation to peaceful neighbors. The invasion of Poland was a continuation of enslavement of once free German voters who no longer determined their destiny through a democratic representative government. The real furnace in Germany, Poland and Russia was not the cremation furnaces of Nazi and Russian death camps. Rather it was the fire of lies, propaganda, fear, religious persecution and suppressed freedom to openly discuss, share or dissent and assert, personal values and thoughts in freedom, without fear of repercussion, retaliation, punishment or death. A free strong Poland was a deadly enemy to two neighboring totalitarian states which persecuted and enslaved their citizens under false and unattainable godless ideals. The love of Antoni and Antonina is a grand example of escaping the heat of the furnace. Their shoe business was vital to the citizens they served. Their inventiveness was vital to wealth accumulation in poverty stricken Krakow during Nazi and Communist occupations. Though they lived under unjust laws of their oppressors, they steadfastly held to their religious faith and refused to deny the Most High God. They refused to bow down to the Evil image of slavery, falsely portrayed as equality, that ruled and ruined daily life and siphoned off rewards of work and creativity.  Governments which deny religious freedom are in fact demanding that citizens worship the image of a beast which attempts to elevate the law of man above the Eternal Law of the Most High God. It will never happen! In the Book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to the Golden image of Nebuchadnezzar and were thrown into the fiery furnace. They said, “We know that our God can deliver us from this fiery furnace. But even if he does not deliver us, we will not bow down to this golden image”. Then they were cast into the fiery furnace and God sent an angel to protect them. The ropes in which they were bound were consumed by the flames but not a hair of their head was  burned. They were persecuted because of their standards, because of their stand and because of their Savior just like the Polish People, Antoni and Antonina. But ultimately this Polish couple was preserved by an ever present God who delivered them from the heat of the furnace of affliction. Because the Most High God was with them, they were free in the fire! With God beside them all the fire did was burn away the things that bound them. God used the fire to loosen them from the ropes (bonds) that enslaved them. My darling Ewa, may we always remember and revere the sacrifices of our parents and the presence of God in their daily walk with God.

Our love, in the power of the Most High God, makes us free,Kochany