Liverpool Blitz Memorial (2010)

On 7th July, 2000, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh unveiled a rather moving statue outside the Church of St Nicholas in the heart of the great city of Liverpool. It commemorated the 4000 deaths caused by the dropping of Nazi bombs in Liverpool and Bootle in 1940, 1941 and 1942. Homes, families, schools and places of work, as well as lives, were all destroyed. Of course, we British gave back as good as we got, and many a German family suffered as greatly as those in Liverpool and its environs. The Second World War was not just fought in trenches with teary mothers pining and worrying for sons and husbands many miles away at 'the front'; it was being fought in our own skies, its effects felt in our own homes.

The war against Christ is being fought in the far east, the middle east and in central Africa where minaret competes with church. Communism, Islam, Hindu nationalism and other ideologies have all sought to stymie and suppress the people of Christ. We have prayed for our persecuted brethren festering in eastern prisons, but the dark clouds now come our own way. If persecution is to come to the West (on the grounds of not bowing to Woke ideology, for example, or the growth of militant Islam), our Lord Jesus will grant us the grace and strength to endure and overcome. Many Lancashire households and families bore the brunt of Hitler’s hatred in the 1940s, and faithful British churches will increasingly bear the brunt of Satan’s odium as this awful century unfolds.

Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

-Deut. 33:25

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