The Lord of hosts very succinctly states His purpose: this is an oracle against Israel. Let us not be deceived, many have seen the great suffering the Jewish people have gone through, the Holocaust, the multiple wars where the Moslem nations around them have sought to exterminate or “drive them out to the sea” and have said, “Enough is enough”. Then the Lord of hosts states, “Here is another oracle or “burden” that will be placed upon you.”

The facts are the nations of the earth have intensified their anti-Semitic feelings against the Nation of Israel over and over the last fifty years. Only one time has the United Nations had a favorable legislation for the Jewish people. That was in the year of 1947, when the nations of the world voted for the Jewish people to have their own homeland. Granted that only 10% of the land that was chartered for them by the League of Nations was eventually given to them, but even so the vote was favorable. Since then, there has not been any nation that has been under the severest condemnation by vote after vote as the Nation of Israel. There has not been a nation that has had to fight as many wars for its own national survival than the Nation of Israel. There has not been a nation that what little land was given for her own homeland that has been demanded over and over to partition, give up to another peoples who sole purpose is to seek the extermination of the Jewish people. Yet the Burden of the Lord has been upon Israel.

With this the Lord of hosts states His credentials. “I am He that created the Universe and stretched out the heavens like a carpet into the vast reaches of infinite space. I am He that formed the iron gyroscoping core in the center of the earth and laid a mantle on top of it. This is the Lord of hosts and with it He says, Trust me!

The awesome power and majesty of the Divine One is so immense that we invite you to a separate study on God the Creator and the Throne of God.

“And forms the spirit of man within him.”

Imbedded in the matrix of the DNA in man is the “Image of Creation”. The Lord of hosts, the ruler of all universes, all dimensions of the created worlds left an imprint of the World of the Divine in the formation, not just creation, of man. This was the “Image of God”. For us to understand how man became a “living soul” by combining the “dust of the ground” and adding the “breath of God”, we must understand how the Lord of hosts created the universes and the multiple dimensions of created beings.

Within the matrix of man and the Image of God in which man was creation is the model or blueprint of all creation. A miniature model of the Divine, the creation of man was the highlight and epitome of creation. To understand the nature of man, the Image of God, one must also understand the process of creation as understood by the Hebrews. We invite you to a study on The Worlds of Creation and the Spirit and Souls of Man.

I will Make Jerusalem a Cup of Trembling

Zechariah 12:2 – Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling

Unto all the people round about,

When they shall be in the siege both against Judah

And against Jerusalem .

Drinking from the “Chalice” of the God of Israel

Redak calls this a cup of poison to all who drink. The Targum Yonatan says there will even be Jews who will oppose Jerusalem!! How true this is with those wanting to divide Jerusalem and look how the issue of the division of Jerusalem led to Barak’s downfall and Sharon’s rise. DON’T TOUCH JERUSALEM, SAYS HASHEM!!

The city of Jerusalem means “city of peace.” Today with about 650,000 people, it only stands as a moderate size city, yet go to your T.V. set and there is no other city in the world that is constantly on the world media and has been for over a decade. Since the beginning of the “Palestinian Intifada” by the Palestinian terrorist’s organization, on September 11, 2000, the world’s attention is constantly riveted by news from Israel and Jerusalem.

The History of Jerusalem in days of Abraham and the Judges

The city of Jerusalem has witnessed more wars, sieges, destructions, rebuilding, bloodshed, human suffering and terror than any other city in the world. The first historical mention of Jerusalem is in the Genesis, when Abraham, after routing and overcoming the five kings of the east who invaded the Vale of Shiddon, where the Dead Sea now is, and took Abraham’s nephew, Lot and his family captive. After this historical defeat by this Eastern potentate, son of a Sumerian oracular priest, Abram, he met the king of Salem, Melchizedek, and gave the tithe of the war booty after defeating the coalition of kings. (Genesis 14:18) Many scholars have felt that this mysterious king was non other than Shem, the son of Noah, who as the oldest man in the world would have had great respect and honor. This city of Salem, or the city of “Peace”, is the very site of Old Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is first identified in non-biblical texts as early as the 18^th to 19^th century BCE in ancient Egyptian texts. The Amarna Letters, dating from the 14^th century B.C. mention a city of Canaan by the name of Urusalim and later identified by the same name in Assyrian texts.

The city is next mentioned in the Bible, after the destruction of Ai, (c.1451 BC) when the combined forces of the Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem (Lord - King) plus Hoham , king of Hebron; Piram (“a wild ass’), king of Jarmuth; Japhia (“the radiant one”), king of Lachish, and Debir (“oracle”), king of Eglon led an invasion force against Gibeon, one of the ‘Royal cities’, just about 5 miles north of Jerusalem on the road to Joppa. Gibeon, a city without a king, ruled in a form of democracy by a council of elders, was also known as a city of mighty men. Fearful of the Israelite invasion with the destruction of Jericho and Ai, Gibeon by subterfuge convinced some of the princes of Israel to form a peace pact with them.

As such, five cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem, Hebron (“union, league or association”) 19 miles southwest of Jerusalem, Jarmuth (a height”) 15 miles to the southwest, Lachish, 30 miles southwest in the Shephelah, or low hills of Judah, and Eglon (“rolling”), 14 miles from Gaza, banded together to attack and punish Gibeon. Joshua, and a defensive force of Israelites in a forced march all night ascended the escarpment of the hills around Jericho and the Dead Sea and sent the forces of the confederacy in panic, while the “act of God” finished off the forces by hailstones in a meteor shower of fiery bolides during the Long day of Joshua, when the Lord of Hosts, listened to the cry of Joshua, ”Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” (Joshua 10:13) to the west.

After the Day of Dedication at Gilgal, Joshua died and was buried. It was now up to the tribes of Israel to go out and possess the land that had been divided for their habitation. Apparently though Phineas, the High Priest, with consultation with the Urim and the Thummin on the breastplate, it was Judah who was commanded to take the lead and start the act of claiming the land. Judah, along with Simeon, “fought against it (Jerusalem)” and “set the city on fire” (Judges 1: 9). Though razed, the Jebusites, continued to rule at their mountain fortress. Yet, this initiated the first acts of possessing the Land of the Promise.

The name Jerusalem is still one of debate. Rabbinical sources claim the name came from the name Abraham gave to the site on Mount Moriah (Genesis 22) when he offered up his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice to his God. On Mount Moriah, where later the Temple of Solomon would be built (2 Samuel 24:18-25, 2 Chronicles 3:1), Abraham called this site, Jehovah-jireh (Genesis 22:14) or “Jehovah will provide”, and coming from the Hebrew root, “vision of Jehovah”.

The History of Jerusalem from the days of King David to the 20^th Century

Four hundred years later, we meet David, a Hebrew herdsman, turned mercenary for the Philistines in the reign of Saul, the first king of Judah, made an assault on the citadel of the Jebusites, the old city of Salem. By daring maneuvers, David and his men were able to scale the city walls, and overcome the city (2 Samuel 5: 6-7), the city which became his capital city, Jebu-salem, or was it rather, “Jireh-salem” or “Jehovah will provide peace.” Upon this site, Solomon built buildings of adornment including a Temple to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which stood unparalleled in ancient times.

Jerusalem Window by Bracha Lavee

Since Abraham’s day, thirty eight times the city of Jerusalem has been conquered and reconquered as the winds of wars have swept over its walls. In the fifteen centuries, from Abraham to the final destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. by the Roman general Titus, the city was besieged at least seventeen times, razed to the ground at least twice and it walls leveled another two times. No city, in ancient or modern times has been assaulted and overthrown as many times as Jerusalem, only to rebound to greater glory.

First came the Egyptians, who plundered the temple of Solomon, then the city was taken by the Philistines and Arabians during the reign of Jehoram (c. 886 BCE) and later by the Israelites in the reign of Amaziah, (c 826 BCE) and then the Assyrians laid a siege but the army of Sennacherib were vaporized by an interplanetary bolide, and the wounded king fled back to Assyria. The Babylonians, after witnessing the vast wealth that remained in the city by invitation of the King Hezekiah, later came to plunder, and eventually destroy the entire city. Three times it was conquered by Nebuchadnezzar, in the years, 607, 597, 596 BCE and then razed to the ground.

The restoration of the city and the temple was restarted under the decree of Cyrus in 538 BCE and completed under Artaxerses 1, who initially commissioned governor Zerubbabel to complete the House of the Lord, Ezra (457 BCE) to bring the priests for the temple service, and Nehemiah to rebuild the walls (445 BCE). The gates to the city were later opened without siege to Alexander the Great in 332 BCE who worshipped in the Temple of God, only to be plundered and conquered by the Seleucid Greek ruler, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, in 167 BCE who desecrated the temple by offering a pig on the altar of God and erected a statue of Zeus in the temple. The brief independence by the Maccabean rulers was soon ended by the power and control of the Roman Empire beginning with the capture by Pompey in 63 BCE It was again plundered by Crassus, in 54 BCE and again the Parthian emperor in 40 BCE.

It was Mark Anthony, who ruled by a surrogate Idumean (Edomites) king, Herod the Great. Under Herod, the Temple of Zerubbabel was enlarged and restored to a grandeur unparalleled in Roman times, and renamed the Temple of Herod. The Herodians controlled the city, under the watchful eye of Roman procurators in the fortress of Antonia until it was again destroyed and the temple eradicated by Titus in 70 C.E. Hadrian restored the city as a Roman colony after the revolt of Bar Kochba in 135 C.E. and erected the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus on the site of the Temple Mount. The Emperor Constantine established the Christian influence by the erection of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 336 C.E., and later Emperor Justinian added several churches and hospitals about 532 C.E.

The city was taken by the Persians under Chosroes II in 614 C.E., yet by the year 637 C.E., the city was surrendered by the Patriarch Sophronius to Khalif Omar, the Abassidian ruler in person. The Arabian caliphs ruled the city, first the Abbasids, and then the Fatimid dynasty, and then in 1084, Ortaok, a Turkman chief assumed its rulership.

Mohammed Ali the Great, the Pasha of Egypt (1769-1848)

The Christian crusades in the 11^th to 13^th century C.E. began in 1099 C.E., when they conquered the Turks. For eighty-eight years Jerusalem remained in Christian hands until the Catholic Crusaders were finally driven out by the famed Muslem warrior, Saladine the Great in 1187 C.E.

In 1277, Jerusalem was nominally annexed to the kingdom of Sicily. In 1517, it passed under the sway of the Ottoman sultan Selim I, whose successor Suleiman the Great built the present walls that surround the city today in 1542 C.E. Mohammed Ali the Great, the pasha of Egypt, took possession of Jerusalem in 1832 BCE and after the bombardment of Acre it was again restored to the sultan.

It is hard to conceive of a Jerusalem unlike the modern metropolitan city of today, yet let us look at Jerusalem through the eyes of William Smith, LL.D, as described in The Dictionary of the Bible in 1884.

Jerusalem 1884 - “Modern Jerusalem (1884), called by the Arabs el-Khuds, is built upon the ruins of ancient Jerusalem. The accumulated rubbish of centuries is very great, being 100 feet deep around the temple walls and 40 feet deep on the hill of Zion. The modern wall, built in 1542, forms an irregular quadrangle about 2 ½ miles in circuit, with seven gates and 34 towers. It varies in height from 20 to 60 feet. The streets within are narrow, ungraded, crooked, and often filthy. The houses are of hewn stone, with flat roofs and frequent domes. There are few windows toward the street.

The most beautiful part of modern Jerusalem is the former temple area (Mount Moriah), “with its lawns and cypress trees, and its noble dome rising high above the wall.” This enclosure, now called Haran esh-Sherif, is 35 acres in extent, and is nearly a mile in circuit.

On the site of the ancient temple stands the Mosque of Omar, “perhaps the very noblest specimen of building-art in Asia.” It is the most prominent as well as the most beautiful building in the whole city.” The mosque is an octagonal building each side measuring 66 feet. It is surmounted by a dome, whose top is 170 feet from the ground.

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which is claimed, but without sufficient reason, to be upon the site of Calvary, is “a collection of chapels and altars of different ages and a unique museum of religious curiosities from Adam to Christ.”

The present number of inhabitants in Jerusalem is variously estimated. Probably Pierotti’s estimate is very near the truth, 20,330; of whom 5068 are Christians, 7556 Mohammedans (Arabs and Turks), and 7706 Jews.” (Smith, William LL.D, the Bible Dictionary, Universal Book and Bible House, Philadelphia, 1884)

The Jews, the Land and the Treaty of Versailles

What is fascinating is the blend of Jew, Moslems and Christians that existed in Jerusalem in 1884. This is the Jerusalem and the Land of Israel that the scholars on prophecy, coming out of the Great Awakening in the 1830’s and 1840’s knew. When Czar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881 by revolutionaries, the Jews were blamed and persecution and pogroms in Russia led to a massive exodus to the New World. Between 1881 and 1919, the population of Jews in the United States grew from fifty thousand to four million, escaping anti-Semitism, a world without hope and poverty.

The Palace of Versailles where the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was Signed

On the aftermath of World War 1, which ended in 1919, the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people in the region called British Colonial Palestine came into being. This idea was being promoted by President Benes of Czechoslovakia along with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The Jews, along with other distinct national groups were promoted as being entitled to their own national countries. These countries included Australia, Canada, South Africa and multiple European regions were identified as sovereign nations.

The architects of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles agreed that the Jewish people should be allowed to settle in the area called British Palestine and the Arabian peoples would settle in the area from Iraq to Yemen. The Jewish people were to settle in the land west of the Jordan River and all the land east of the Jordan would go to the children of Ishmael. To the world leaders at Versailles, there were no such “people” as the Palestinian people. All of the above national peoples achieved their sovereign homelands at this time, except the Jewish people.

King Abdullah I (as-Sayyid Abdullah bin al-Husayn) of Jordan

The British Lion, trying to protect its fading empire, had different ideas. Out the land of British Palestine, in 1921, the British government created the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordanian Palestine, better recognized as a sovereign state for Arabs in the land of Palestine. Not only creating a Palestinian state for Palestinians, the British with King Abdullah, took the mandate from the Treaty of Versailles and gave an additional third of the land dedicated for the Nation of Israel and incorporated it into the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan Palestine. After this, when the land was occupied by King Abdullah of Jordan, he dropped the word, Palestine, and the word Transjordan and his nation became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Not only that, the British continued to use their political influence to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state within the region.

The Jews, Hitler, the Holocaust and the Time of Jacob’s Trouble

On January 30, 1933, over seventy years ago, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The destruction of the constitutional government in Germany was sealed and the promise of any future homeland or even a promised home in America was closed to the Jewish people. In the same year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as President of the United States. Both countries, the United States and Germany, were coming out of a Great Worldwide Depression. Both men led their respective countries, Germany and the United States for the next twelve years and both died in the same month of April, 1945.

Hitler immediately began pogroms to isolate and evict the Jewish people, first in Germany and then in every European country that came under his control and influence. President Roosevelt immediate closed the borders of America to the immigration of any Jews and to the hopes of any Jews escaping the progressively longer and longer arm of persecution and torture by the German Nazi SS police.

Hitler, using two emergency provisions in the Weimar Constitution, articles 24 and 48, which allow the president to usurp the powers of the state governments, suspend the constitutional guarantees of civil liberties, and to dissolve the Reichstag. On the night of February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building was set aflame and the official liberties of all citizens in Germany ceased. First the communists were hunted as a “shoot to kill” order in any public demonstration was enacted.

The Burning of the Reichstag of Germany

Racial purity became the obsession of Hitler, and Slavs, Gypsies, and blacks were inferior, but at the bottom of the list were the Jews, ‘the most dangerous of races, in part because they parasitically lived off the other races and weakened them.” (Berenbaum, Michael, The World Must Know, The Story of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum., Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1993, p. 21) Here Hitler claimed the Jews were the ‘eternal mushroom of humanity. The Aryan race was in his mind destined to be superior, and the master race would dominate if it preserved its purity. Immediately, the country underwent scrutiny, person by person, through family lineages, facial and body typing (skull size, nose width and eye color) and quickly policies of forced segregation, forced sterilization and later systematic murder were instituted.

The Jewish Patch of Identity in Nazi Germany

Official persecution of the Jews began on April 1, 1933, in which a national boycott was instituted against all Jewish shops and businesses. Storm troopers were stationed in front of Jewish-owned shops. The Star of David in yellow and black was painted over thousands of store windows, and signs, “German, Defend yourselves! Don’t buy from the Jews, The Jews are our Misfortune or simply Jude” were hung outside.

The Signing of the Papal Concordat with Nazi Germany by Papal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli the future

Pope Pius XII (1933)

This same sign, the yellow Star of David, eventually came to be a forced personal insignia that all Jews had to wear on their clothes when they walked outside their homes. Under what became known as the Nuremberg Race Laws (1935), Germany began a systematic division of the people of Germany between the Germans and the Jews. Hitler wanted to be sure that in the future, Germany would no longer be mongrelized, which he claimed had ‘robbed us of world domination.” (Ibid 34) By 1935, German Jews were stripped of their citizenship. By 1937, all Jewish property was registered and then Aryanized in 1938 and in 1938, all German Jewish passports were marked with the letter J, for Jude. In August 17, 1938, all Jewish men had to take a middle name, Israel, and all Jewish women, had to take the middle name, Sara.

Niemöller

The Christian Church in Germany as a whole fell in line with the Nazification of Germany. The Roman Catholic Church in 1933 signed a concordat with Hitler, which was negotiated by Papal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, the former papal nuncio in Berlin and the later Pope Pius XII, which granted freedom of practice to the Catholic Church, with the understanding that the Catholic Church would not interfere in any way with German politics. With the moral voice of the Papacy gone, the concordat in reality became a victory for the Fuhrer and became subservient to the regime. Protestant Churches as a whole, with the exception of a few pastors were caught up in the zealous nationalism of Nazism. The German Christians Faith Movement took over the mainstream church offices to be opposed only by the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Confessional Church, led by the Reverend Martin Niemöller. It was his famous quote, which lasts to this day:

Reverend Martin Niemöller - “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade-unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionists. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.” (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, German, quoted in Ibid, 41)

The Munich Conference signed by (from left to right), Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano

Nazi expansionism began in earnest in 1939. They had already taken over the Saarland by a plebiscite vote in January, 1935, and then in March 12, 1938, they took over Austria. In the Munich Conference on September 28 and 29, 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain abandoned the most prosperous and most democratic country in central Europe, along with the leaders of France and Italy, when they conceded that the three million ethnic Germans living in the region in Czechoslovakia where they were a minority, could have autonomy within the center of the country of Czechoslovakia.

The Interior of the Berlin Synagogue after Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass” in 1938

Chamberlain return to England triumphant that he had brought, “peace in our time”, along with these words, “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” (Ibid 47) By March, 1939, Germany had taken over Czechoslovakia and in six months, Britain was at war with Germany. Chamberlain was now history.

This concept is called Balkanization, where a minority ethnic group is given autonomy within a national country, was later tried again in Yugoslavia by the US and NATO in order to carve out a Moslem State within the existing sovereign nation of Yugoslavia, whose national framework was a conglomerate of Moslems, Eastern Orthodox (Christians) and Roman Catholic citizens. The wars at Kosovo with the resultant thousands loosing their lives in religious genocide and is also the present political blue-print imposed upon the State of Israel by the United Nations with the internal Palestinian state, the West Bank and Gaza. In fact, when the United Nations and the United States were in the process of invading the Balkans, President Bill Clinton assured Yasser Arafat that this war was done to “give him time to create a more positive attitude and support by the American people to support a Palestinian State in Israel.” (Vendyl Jones, War and Religion, www.vendyljones.org.il/war.htm pg. 22)

Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” (1938)

It was Yasser Arafat as recorded in the Jerusalem Post and Palestinian news agencies demanded that ...”the ‘international community’ …end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land just as it ended the persecution of the Albanians in Kosovo.” Further…”just as the international community managed to put an end to the oppression in Kosovo and reach a peace agreement, the international community is called upon to revitalize the peace process in the Middle East and put and end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.” (Ibid 32)

Evian Royal Palace, Evian-les-Bains, RhÃ´ne-Alpes And then came Kristallnacht, the “Crystal Night” of the “Night of Broken Glass”. It was November 9, 1938, and a violent but orchestrated outburst of anti-Jewish emotion broke out throughout all the Reich land. A seventeen-year old Polish Jewish boy, Herschel Grynszpan, in desperation because his parents were to be deported out of Germany to Poland, but Poland refused to accept them, assassinated a minor German embassy official in Paris. Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller sent a telegram to all police stations that ‘in shortest order, actions against Jews and especially their synagogues will take place in all Germany. These are not to be interfered with.” (Ibid 54)

Hotel Royale at Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva

The police were ordered to arrest the victims and fire companies were ordered to let the synagogues burn down. In the next 48 hours over one thousand synagogues were torched and burned along with their hand written Torah scrolls and prayer books. Seven thousand Jewish businesses were looted and ransacked, ninety six Jews were killed and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools and homes were desecrated or destroyed. Thirty thousand Jews were arrested. The concentration camps of Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen were filled.

All countries of the world by this time had closed their borders to the Jews. In July, 1938, delegations from 32 different countries met at the Hotel Royale at Evian-les-Baines on Lake Geneva, as a token gesture by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to deal with the Jewish emigration crisis. As the chief concierge at Hotel Royale stated,

President Franklin D. Roosevelt - “Very important people were here and all the delegates had a nice time. They took pleasure cruises on the lake. They gambled at night at the casino. They took mineral baths and massages at the Etablissement Thermal. Some of them took the excursion to Chamonix to go summer skiing. Some went riding; we have, you know, one of the best stables in France. But of course, it is difficult to sit indoors hearing speeches when all the pleasures that Evian offers are outside.” (Ibid 48)

Hotel Royale at Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva

The voice of the nations was clear. No country would be expected to receive any more immigrants than were expected under existing laws. The American quota would remain the same. The British were given assurances that the question of Jewish immigration to Palestine, under the British mandate would not be discussed. The status quo remained the same and the Jews were soon to head to the concentration camps. United States immigration, under a strict quota system, restricted immigration by myriad of paperwork, including a certificate of good conduct to be given by one’s local Liquidation authority, the Gestapo. After war broke out in 1939, all German Jews were barred as potential German spies.

The Germans Burning and Liquidating the Warsaw Ghetto – Yad Vashem

For the first time in American history, between 1932 and 1938, there were more emigrants leaving the United States than those immigrating to America. Between 1933 and 1945, only two years, 1938 and 1939, were the immigration quotas for Germany and Austria filled. This was not a unilateral government ploy, for only 9 percent of the American public supported changing immigration laws to allow refugees from persecution to enter this country. Anti-Semitism was rampant and every poll expressed the sentiment that Jews posed a major threat to this country. Even a bill, the Wagner-Rogers Bill, to rescue Jewish children died in committee due to the lack of support. Even so, the United States did receive the largest number of refugees between the years of 1933 to 1945, a total of 132,000, a little more than 10,000 refugees per year.

The story of the Holocaust has been told and the horrors of the ghettos and the concentration camps should forever be burned in the consciousness of mankind. In Warsaw, the decree to establish the Warsaw Ghetto was announced on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, October 12, 1940. Sixty years later, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year, September 28, 2000, Ariel Sharon, then the leader of the opposition right-wing Likud party, traveled to the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem with security officers and Likud MK’s and exercised his right to inspect and visit the Mount which was still under the Israeli control since the 1967 Six-day War.

On October 4, 2000, four days prior to Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and sixty years after the decree to establish the Warsaw Ghetto, Yasser Arafat announced the Day of Rage and the Second Intifada of the Palestinians began, seeking to drive the Nation of Israel out to the sea. For students of prophecy, Rosh Hashanah, 2010, seventy years after the decree to establish the Warsaw Ghetto and officially imprison the Jews must be a day watch in the future.

In Warsaw, schedules were posted on billboards on when to move and whole neighborhoods were forced evacuated at a time. While Jews were forced out of their neighborhood, Poles were also evacuated to make room for the Ghetto. Within two weeks, 133,000 Christian Poles and 138,000 Jews were relocated, taking only those possessions they could carry on a wagon. In the Warsaw Ghetto, 30 percent of the cities population was forced to occupy only 2.4 percent of the cities land. The Jews had now been segregated; isolated and insulated from their neighbors, homes and the national life they had grown to love.

The Villa at Wannsee where the “Final Solution” Conference was Held

On January 20, 1942, at the Wannsee Conference, the meeting of officials who were responsible to coordinate the systematic slaughter of the Jews, the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem” was formally announced. Genocide has been a sad part of the history of mankind, but the Holocaust was unique in that is was premeditated, coordinated, and intentionally implemented. The goal of the “Final Solution” would have been the systematic destruction of every Jew, eleven million by their estimates, including those in England and in Ireland. This was the first time, a biological reason was given to destroy the Jews, and it served no means to an end, but was a fundamental goal of the architects of the policy.

For those who know prophecy well, the Holocaust will not match the horrors of the coming tribulation, a tribulation that will be experienced by all peoples, on every continent and of every race and religion. Yet the Holocaust of the Jews, an account missed by most biblical scholars was prophesied by Jeremiah the Prophet when he said,

Jeremiah 30:4-9: “This is what the Lord has said to Israel and Judah. These are the words of the Lord:

“You shall hear a cry of terror, or fear without relief. Ask and see: can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man gripping his sides like a woman in labor, every face changed, all turned pale? Awful is that day: when has there been its like? A time of trouble for Jacob, yet he shall come through it safely.

In that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will break their yoke off their necks and snap their cords; foreigners shall no longer use them as they please, they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.”

The Time of Jacob’s Trouble was a time on earth when all the world participated in the isolation and destruction of God’s chosen people. Outside of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, no Christian denomination was willing to raise a cry of outrage to the treatment of the Jewish people. The concept of Replacement Theology and Spiritual Israel, which was instituted in the collective consciousness of the gentile Christian church by the orthodox Roman Church, had so permeated Roman Catholic Church and all the Protestant denominations. Called Christians, they acted as though the Jews and Israel did not exist.

Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp

A careful picture of God’s dealing with His chosen ones will lead any careful scholar to one conclusion, the Lord of hosts always punished Israel first. We talk so much about the exile and destruction of the Jewish people, the exile and loss of identity of the citizens of the Nation of Israel, but we fail to read the rest of the oracles of destruction concerning the rest of the nations surrounding Israel. God always chose His people to send them into the fires of purification yet the promise of redemption was always given; ‘I will redeem you not because you are worthy, in fact you are a stiff-necked and rebellious people, but I will redeem you, because I am the Lord your God and I will honor My Holy Name.” (paraphrased)

By the time the ReNewed Covenant was revealed in the gospels and the future prophecies of the time of the end was revealed to John the Revelator, not one of the nations of the Middle East that surrounded the Nation of Israel and Judah existed. The national identity of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Philistines (Palestinians), Gebelites, the Hagerites, the Moabites, and the Ismaelites all disappeared as nationalistic or cultural people. They all disappeared only to be revived and resurrected at the time of the end. Yes the Drama of the Ages will be played for the last time, and then the Day of the Lord will come.

The Woman in Travail Giveth Birth - A Nation is Born, Israel

“What we’re seeing here … are the birth pangs of a new Middle East and whatever we do, we have to be certain that we are pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old one.” – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2007

The Travail of Birth Continues – Israel’s 60^th Birthday 2008

This present document seeks to evaluate not the horrors that the German Nazi regimen committed upon God’s chosen ones, but to document the failure of all nations and almost all religions to address the atrocities of evil to any person of race or religion. The lapse of moral consciousness and the complicity of all nations is a stark reality that this drama will be repeated again before the end of days.

Menachem Wolfovich Begin the 6^th Prime Minister of Israel (Likud) between the years of 1977-1983

Menachem Begin on the Sea Shore of Tel Aviv on June 1, 1949 with the Irgun Underground Fighters on the first Anniversary of the Shelling of the “Altalena” by Ben Gurion and the Israeli IDF

Prior to 1939, most Jewish refugees were able to escape to Palestine, but in that year, a British White Paper limited the number of immigrants for the next five years to only 15,000 per year. The world had effectively closed its doors to the Jewish people. Even the promised Jewish homeland, as proposed by the Versailles Treaty, was effectively blocked. The Jewish inhabitants within the land of Palestine seeking their own national identity eventually had to bring this to a reality by the sword. The award winning movie, Exodus, is a documentary of this event. In what is now known as the War of Liberation, the forces under Menachem Begin, in 1947, drove the British out of Colonial Palestine. The last world empire, the British, threw up their hands in despair and left the region on May 15, 1948.

Just prior to that date, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations passed UN Resolution 181 (II), which effectively gave Israel less than 10% of the land mandated in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The Jewish people accepted the resolution, but the Arabs did not. During this time the Palestinian populations indigenous to other Arab states were sent flooding into the land of Israel in preparation to destroy this fledgling nation.

The Declaration of the Sovereignty of Israel on May 14, 1948

By the time the Nation of Israel declared her sovereignty on May 14, 1948, they were attacked by Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Fighting twenty months against the five member Arab coalition, against forces that far outnumber them, Israel won her own freedom and independence. Yet, of the land partitioned to the Nation of Israel in 1947, after the war was over, Israel survived, but Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip and the Jordan occupied the West Bank.

The Origins of the Palestinian Crisis

The Palestinian Refugee Camp of Al Barid in Tarablus, Lebanon in 1952

Once the war was over, the Palestinian peoples who came into the country to drive out the Jewish people, were no longer welcome back into the countries of their origin. The Arab leaders promise to the Palestinians was that “As soon as you drive the Jews into the sea, you can return.” To the shock of the governments of Jordan, Iran Iraq and Syria, when the 600,000 Palestinians wanted to return to the countries of their origin, they were refused. They were now refugees from their own Arabian nations. This is the origin of the Palestinian Arabs today.

It was the UN that altered the definition of “refugee” that states, anyone who arrived into the land of Israel within two years prior to the 1948 War of Independence would be called a refugee. It was the UN and the Nation of Israel that put up $150 million to resettle to their own homes, except one problem, those that returned were shot by Arafat’s PLO. This is important to keep in mind, when the Palestinians claim Israel as their homeland for thousands of years. This is well documented in the book, “From Time Immemorial” (Harper and Row, 1984) by former White House consultant and CBS free-lance writer, Joan Peters.

The Jewish National Homeland (Eretz Israel) voted by the Treaty of Versailles and Governed by the British Mandate between the years of 1920-1946

Nineteen years later, in 1967, I was training as a non-combatant soldier at a medical cadet camp in Michigan when the word came across the airwaves that Israel had once again gone to war in defense of her country. During this Six Day War of 1967, the Jewish soldiers broke through the Jordanian front line capturing the Temple Mount and immediately went to pray at the Western Wall. During these six days, Israel took control of the West Bank and Gaza, which was mandated to Israel by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.

The West Bank was taken over by King Abdullah of Jordan in 1921 with the support of the British and reclaimed again after repartitioned in 1947 to Israel, but remained in the control of the Kingdom of Jordan after the war with Israel.

On the other hand, the Gaza Strip, remained in the control of Egypt after the 1967 war. For the first time in 1900 years,

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