March 3, 2017 @ 8:00 AM
I watched an old movie the other night called Mission to Moscow. It proves Hollywood could be as out to lunch back then as now. The only difference is, it was out to lunch at times back then, but all the time today.
The movie was based on a 1941 book by Joseph E. Davies, who was FDR's ambassador to the Soviet Union. Hollywood made the movie at the prompting of FDR to persuade the American people that the communists of the Soviet Union were benign and would make trustworthy allies. Talk about getting two-fisted egg thrown in your face by history, I can't think of a more embarrassing example.
In one scene, Davies visits Winston Churchill to enlist him to “build…a solid wall of military alliance with Russia and every other country threatened by [Nazi] Germany.” Churchill, however, points out to Davies that he is incapable of doing so, since he is “not a member of government.” Still, Davies argues that Churchill has “great influence with the English people” and can “bring home to them the great danger” being posed to the world by Hitler’s Third Reich. Churchill responds by saying that he is “an alarmist,” someone who “says things people don’t like to hear.” He goes on to add that it would “take a major catastrophe to make [his] voice heard.”
Of course, we now know that a major catastrophe occurred—World War II—and that Churchill’s voice was finally heard. He was vindicated, elected prime minister of England, and became known as the man who spoke truth to lies, even when it was extremely unpopular to do so.
Our motto at Time For Truth Ministries—SPEAKING GOD'S TRUTH TO END-TIME LIES—is borrowed from the English people’s eventual praise of Winston Churchill as a man who spoke truth to lies. We believe we are under divine compulsion to speak God's extremely unpopular prophetic truth to a world caught up in the euphoria of end-time lies. Consequently, we are saying things people don’t like to hear. Additionally, we are convinced, as was Churchill, that we will not be heard or vindicated until major catastrophe strikes. Still, we take no consolation in the sound of its approaching hoofbeats. Instead of being heartened by it, we are heartbroken over it, convinced our world today, just like the world in Churchill’s day, is oblivious to the evil about to befall it.