The Holocaust, a testimony
against
this world going to its end
and the
annunciator
of the future
meeting between
the Jewish people
and their Messiah!
Today, the
Jewish people have their home in Israel. For more than two thousand five
hundred years, the history of the Jews was marked by persecutions often cruel
and mortal, forced migrations of their people from one land to another without
any insurance of being able to take root somewhere. Despite this unbearable way
of life, the Jews, far from disappearing in the desert of history, managed to
keep their identity, a mark of quality that the so-called "Christian"
nations have never managed to destroy.
The Holocaust
is probably one of the peaks of the horror that the Jews have suffered,
especially from the Germanic power with the nauseating complicity of most
Western nations. The Führer's pride had blinded him to the point of believing
himself invested with authority to establish his millennium, a millennium from
which the Jews had to be eradicated. The Führer forgot that the only true
millennium mentioned in the book of Revelation of John and the prophecy of
Zechariah will be occur mainly with the participation of the Jewish people, the
inhabitants of Jerusalem and the Messiah, also a Jew! (Revelation 7: 5 and Zechariah
14: 3-15 and chapter 12).
A careful
reading of the Bible leads apparently to understand that these hateful actions
perpetrated by nations against the Jews, harmless and respectful people, have
been prophesied since more than two thousand five hundred years. This prophecy
also demonstrates how much the Jewish people unconsciously accepted to live and
suffer in the same manner of their Messiah.
About the
confusion between Israel and the Jews: a little historical reminder.
The popular belief among both Jews
and non-Jews often suggests that it is essentially the Jewish people who have
come out of Egypt. This way of thinking is very narrow and most erroneous according
to historical truth; no trace about this statement is to be found in the Bible.
In fact it is the children of Israel also called Hebrews (Exodus 5: 3; 7: 16;
9: 1 and 10: 3) who have come out of Egypt, probably several millions of
people, if we take into account the fact
that they were also accompanied by a gathering of many foreigners (Exodus
12:38).
The Jewish people, as we know them
today, did not exist as such at the time of the exodus from Egypt.
The children of Israel, Jacob, the
grandson of Abraham the Hebrew, are the descendants of Jacob's twelve sons. It
should be noted that Dina, Jacob's daughter, is not mentioned among those who
went to Egypt to deal with the problems caused by the starvation in the land of
Canaan. The very first time the word Jew is mentioned in the Bible is in II
Kings 16: 6: at that time, the Jews are fighting against Peqah,
the penultimate king of the kingdom of Israel whose capital was Samaria. The
kingdom of Israel, at the north of Jerusalem was populated by the descendants
of the major tribes of the sons of Israel who had rejected the kingship of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon. This rejection was at the
origin of the schism of the original kingdom of Israel.
The tribes who rejected the
kingship of Roboam and created the kingdom
of Israel in the northern part of the country were:
• Ruben
• Issachar
• Zebulun
• Dan
• Joseph represented by the two
half-tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh
• Naphtali
• Gad
• Asher
This represents 8 out of the 12
tribes that are the children of Israel.
Those who will become Jews some 300
years later are first and foremost descendants of Judah and Benjamin (I Kings
12:23) but also of Simeon whose territory was in the middle of Judah (Joshua
19: 1) and last but not least, the Levites, who had no reason to be in the
kingdom of northern Israel since it had fallen into the idolatry established by
Jeroboam, its first king, with the worship of the two golden calves. one in Bethel and the other in Dan (I Kings 12: 26-31). Only
these four tribes among the twelve that came out of Egypt will give birth to
the Jewish people. We must therefore stop believing in the fable of the
Egyptian exit from the Jewish people!
Disappearance
of the northern kingdom of Israel and its people.
Another important reason for not
confusing the Jews with the northern kingdom of Israel, alias kingdom of Samaria,
is the very different destinies of these two entities. Indeed, in the eighth
century BCE, the Assyrian kingdom invaded the entire kingdom of northern Israel
whose capital was Samaria and ended it by deporting its entire population to
northern Assyria and the country of the Medes. The Assyrian ruler then
repopulated this territory of Israel, especially by Babylonians whose small
tribe of the Samaritans is perhaps their descendent today. Assyria became at
that time the superpower dominating the Middle East following Egypt that lost
this top position. The disappearance of the Kingdom of Israel from Samaria
takes place when Rome is still a small town of no importance.
The Bible shows that the tribes of
the northern kingdom of Israel symbolized by Joseph or Ephraim, their leader,
are going to have a destiny quite separate from the kingdom of Judah populated
by the Jewish people. They will be united again in one kingdom with the Jews and
with one ruling power only in the Messianic time, when from the same heart,
they will put their joy to live according to the commandments of their Creator.
This is at least what the prophet Ezekiel suggests in chapter 37 in verses
15-28.
Meanwhile, the tribes of the
northern kingdom of Israel are the first to be scattered among the nations. The same fate occured later also for the Jews,
step by step between the seventh century before our era and the first century
of our era. By the way, if you read the beginning of the Epistle of
James shows, you will see how much the believers in the time of Jesus were
aware of this dispersion of the twelve tribes (James 1: 1).
The
special fate of the Jewish people.
Unlike the tribes associated with
the kingdom of northern Israel, of whom we will hardly hear about in secular
history, the Jews will have a destiny that will constantly put them in the
forefront of history and often caused them severe sufferings. until even today!
One of the major event
in the history of the Jews took place definitely shortly after the execution
and disappearance of Jesus, also called Yeshua and
recognized as the Messiah by the believers. In the year 70, the armies of Titus
will completely destroy the city of Jerusalem and the Temple of Yehoah! The Jewish people who survived these events were
expelled from the Holy Land and deported throughout the Roman Empire. Here we
must open a parenthesis and point out that the main responsibility in the
execution of Jesus is essentially in the hands of the religious leaders at that
time who saw with a very bad eye the popular success of this "prophet"
who not only proclaimed himself son of Yehoah Elohim,
but was also very critic about the disgusting behavior of the Pharisees and
their leaders who were imposing many rules of their own, rules that didn’t have anything to do with the commandments contained
in the Bible. Their pride was hurt and led Jesus to death. These religious
leaders behaved in the most abject way by succeeding through a nauseating
propaganda to discredit Jesus among his generation and to convince people that
he deserved to be put to death. The chief priests even deny the authority of
Elohim by proclaiming to Pilate that their only authority is that of Caesar without
any mention of Yehoah! (John 19:15)
As a result, a veil of blindness
fell on a large part of the Jewish people who could no longer understand the
meaning of the writings of prophecies despite their assiduous and persevering
reading of them as was forecasted by Isaiah in his chapter 6 and verses 8 to
13!
The sacrifice
of the Messiah announced eight centuries before our era!
For instance, the Jews are unable to
understand that chapter 53 of the book of Isaiah announced some 700 years in
advance and with the greatest precision the sacrifice of the Messiah accepted
by the Yehoah Elohim:
" 1
Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of Yehoah been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up
before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form
or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire
Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men (Editor’s note:
The Messiah at the time of his arrest was abandoned even by all his followers
according to Matthew 26:56), a Man of sorrows (Editor's note: The text
here refers to one man and not to the Jewish people as some people believe)
and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was
despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely He has borne our
griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by Elohim,
and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was
bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by
His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned, every one, to his own way; and Yehoah has
laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was
afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, (Editor's
note: When you are led to the slaughter, it is always to be executed) and
as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth. 8
He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His
generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My
people He was stricken (Editor's note: The Messiah's execution was
considered a just punishment thanks to the propaganda made by the religious authorities
in place and the majority of the generation of the Jewish people of the time
ignored the reason and deep meaning of this sacrifice. Moreover, it occurred unnoticed in
his generation). 9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His death, because He had done no
violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased Yehoah to bruise Him; He
has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an
offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the
pleasure of Yehoah shall prosper in His hand. 11 ]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be
satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall
justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I
will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall
divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and
He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors. "
This prophecy announces the discreet
appearance of a Jewish man living as everyone among his people and whose
destiny was to be rejected by all and offered in a sacrifice of a human being
that is approved by the Lord. Most of his contemporaries would see in this same
execution a well-deserved condemnation for crimes committed whereas this
sacrifice accepted by this man had for mission the spiritual rescue not only of
his Jewish people but of all the humanity.
The Holocaust of
the Jews announced more than 500 years before our era!
In a very similar way, the Jews, as
well as so many non-Jewish people, are unable to explain why so often there was
a fury to exterminate so many innocent Jews mainly in Europe and
in Russia. However it seems that the holocaust
of the Jews, is clearly mentioned in the Bible. It is
true that without the input of the Bible, it is not possible to understand why
such crimes could occur. In fact, Jews, scattered among so many nations,
silently agreed to be blamed, abused, misplaced, and in spite of that, they
always tried without any hate to make themselves useful and helpful everywhere,
often living with crumbs left by the others! So why did so many Europeans give
their hands to the Nazis for the horrible so-called final solution elaborated
in the smallest details?
And yet here again, the writings of
Psalm 44 seem to announce to the Jewish people a destiny in many respects
identical to that of the man of whom Isaiah 53 speaks:
" 10 You make us
turn back from the enemy, and those who hate us have taken spoil for
themselves. (Editor’s note: on the contrary to what we read in Isaiah 53,
here there is no mention of one single man but of people namely the Jewish
people)
11 You have given us up like sheep intended for food, and have scattered
us among the nations.
12 You sell Your people for next to
nothing, and are not enriched by selling them.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision
to those all around us. (Editor’s note: v11 is related to the Diaspora all over
the world of the Jews. V13 is forecasting the stigmatization of the Jewish
people with malicious word games or suggestive drawings.)
14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head
among the peoples.
15 My dishonor is continually before me, and the shame of my face
has covered me, 16 because of the voice of him who reproaches and
reviles, because of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from
Your way;
19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our Elohim, or stretched out our
hands to a foreign god, 21 would not Elohim search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. (Editor’s note: The
Jewish people did everything possible to keep the traditions of the Bible,
which differentiated them from all the people around them making them like
foreigners in this world. They were marked and easy to recognize! Moreover,
according to their conscience, most of the Jews lived with probity)
22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. ( Editor’s note:
Here too, just as in Isaiah, the people are sent to the slaughter, that is to
say, to death)
23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Yehoah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face, and forget
our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our body clings to the ground.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for Your
mercies’ sake.”
We can understand that this psalm
refers to the sacrifice or Holocaust of the Jewish people. The sons of Korah who wrote this psalm under inspiration of the Lord
were Jews.. Here too, just as it was the case with the
Messiah, these Jewish people, respectful of their Creator and guardian of the biblical
traditions with the Sabbath as a sign of gratitude, were handed over to all
nations for an extreme sacrifice! And here too this sacrifice is done according
to the will of the Lord.
This Psalm 44 clearly reveals the
common destiny reserved for both the Jewish people and their Messiah, who is
also by extension the Messiah of all human beings!
But the Jewish people, for the most,
have ignored throughout their history and still do not know who their Messiah
is today.
The day they will find it out and
understand that their ancestors initiated the killing prcess
of Jesus by the Roman authorities, there will be a deep sorrow, a sincere
emotion and gratitude towards this wonderful Savior (Zechariah 12: 9-10):
" 9 It shall be in
that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against
Jerusalem. 10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the
inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will
look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for
Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as
one grieves for a firstborn. "
Is Yehoah’s attitude cruel? Is this a good reason to reject
this so-called Creator? Is there a logical explanation for this attitude that
would allow us not to reject our Father?
These are few questions that we must
address and try to answer in order not to be tempted to reject our Creator and His
son, our Savior and Messiah.
To undertake this heavy task, we
must first accept to leave our infinitely small world if we compare it with the
world of Yehoah. To convince yourselves,
let us have a look at the universe around us: the galaxies of the farthest
stars are at a distance of more than 13 billion light-years. Think that the
velocity of light is approximately 300,000 km / second (almost 8 times the circle
of the earth in one second). As David said, almost 3,000 years ago (Psalm 8:
4-5):
" 4 What is man
that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5
For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
and You have crowned him with glory and honor. "
The believers understand that our scale
of time has nothing to do with the perspective used by our Father in the new
world He is creating for us and that will succeed to this world going to its
end because th behavior of mankind.
This new world is the one of which
the Messiah and a multitude of people will be part of after having passed the
tests proving that we want and are fit to live there! Many have already
qualified as Enoch, Noah, Abraham and many others mentioned in the Bible. Many
others will have the opportunity to qualify after their resurrection to a physical
life as it is mentioned in the book of Revelation.
If we are convinced that our Creator
is righteous and does not use double standards with people, we can understand
that it would be cruel and unjust to see most of the human beings living today in
poverty. This misery has several causes: starvation, war, epidemics, the mistreatment
imposed by powerful men to the weaker, such as prostitution, pedophilia,
slavery, drugs, incarceration without trial, concentration camps and killings:
And we are facing these catastrophies today despite
the so-called beautiful words pronounced by people at the United Nations, despite
the existence of this jungle of NGOs and the plethora of politicians who think
so often only at themselves!
No, the duration of our life on this
earth is negligible when we compare it with the scale of the eternity of the
world to come being created by our Lord. We must consider our lives as a short
period of education to prepare ourselves for the true spiritual life we
are called to live.
Let's compare our life to the
relatively short period of our studies, the memory of which may already be
distant.
If we understand this, we can begin
to realize that either we are today in the greatest misfortune and suffering,
or in the relatively carefree happiness of a small part of Western society. The
time we live is very short with respect to the limitless time that our Creator
wants to put at our disposal as soon as we are transformed into spiritual
beings.
The birth of the
state of Israel populated mainly by Jews and Zionism promoted to the rank of
religion prophesied by the Bible 8 centuries before our era!
If you refer to what we have written
above, you will recall that the Jewish people lived primarily before the time
of their diaspora on the territory of Judea, the part situated in Jerusalem and
the south of it until around Beer-Sheba . One would
have expected that after their independence in 1948, the Jews would have called
their new state, Jewish state of Judea. Yet surprisingly, it was the name of
Israel that was chosen and more surprisingly, this choice was already mentioned
in a prophecy written by the prophet Isaiah some 2600 years earlier (Isaiah 48:
1):
" Hear this, O house
of Jacob, who are called by the name of
Israel, and have come forth from the wellsprings of Judah; ... »
Isaiah's prophecy goes on to
criticize the Jewish people for making Zionism a religion that is competing
with Yehoah:
"… Who swear by the name of Yehoah, and make mention of Elohim of Israel, but not in
truth or in righteousness; 2 For they call themselves after the holy
city (Editor’s note: Zion and Zionists), and lean on Elohim of Israel; Yehoah of hosts is His name:
3 “I have declared the former things from the beginning; they went
forth from My mouth, and I caused them to hear it. Suddenly I did them, and
they came to pass.
4 Because I knew that you were obstinate, and your neck was an iron
sinew, and your brow bronze, 5 even from the beginning I have
declared it to you; before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you, lest you
should say, ‘My idol has done them, and my carved image and my molded image have
commanded them.’
6 “You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have
made you hear new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not
know them.”
But the good point is that this come
back of the Jewish people in the Holy Land shortly before the coming of the
Messiah was also prophesied at the time of the Persian Empire by the prophet
Zechariah (Zechariah 12 and following chapters):
Chapter 12, verse 3 and followings:
“And it shall happen in that day
that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would
heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are
gathered against it.” 4 In that day,” says Yehoah,
“I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will
open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples
with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, ‘The
inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yehoah of
hosts, their Elohim.’ 6 In that day I will make the governors of
Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves;
they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the
left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place—Jerusalem.
7 “Yehoah will save the tents of Judah
first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants
of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. 8 In that day Yehoah will defend the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be
like David, and the house of David shall be like Elohim, like the Angel of Yehoah before them.”
Let us continue with Zechariah Chapter 14, verses 3 to 7:
" 3 Then Yehoah will go forth and fight against those nations, as He
fights in the day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand
on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of
Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half
of the mountain shall move toward the northand half
of it toward the south.
5 Then you shall flee through My mountain
valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you
fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king
of Judah. Thus Yehoah my Elohim will come, and all
the saints with You. 6 It shall come to
pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish. 7
It shall be one day which is known to Yehoah— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen that
it will be light. "
The great crowd
from all peoples and nations will also follow the example left by the Jews and
will accept to be sacrificied in a Holocaust that
will be approved by our Father.
The example of the Jewish people
will be followed by a great crowd of innocent human beings who will also be led
to the supreme sacrifice by the forces of evil and thus, by so doing, they will
ally themselves with the Messiah.
Revelation 7: 9-17:
“9 After these things I
looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all
nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10
and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our Elohim who
sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” 11 All the angels stood around
the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and fell on their
faces before the throne and worshiped Elohim, 12 saying: “Amen!
Blessing and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be
to our Elohim forever and ever. Amen.”
13 Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “Who are these
arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” 14 And I said
to him, “Sir, you know.”
So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation,
and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15
Therefore they are before the throne of Elohim, and serve Him day and night in
His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. 16
They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike
them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb who is
in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains
of waters. And Elohim will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Misfortune often reaches the righteous, but Yehoah
always delivers him.