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A number of observant Jews sincerely believe that the deaths of six million
of their fellows via German atrocities during the second world war satisfied
certain teachings and predictions in the 53rd chapter of Isaiah's prophecy. A
rabbinic interpretation of that chapter proposes, in so many words, that the
fate of God's people at the hands of Hitler's minions accomplished the
salvation of the world.
The interpretation is a bit involved so I won't go into it here; but suffice to
say that the interpretation provides, for some, the only rational explanation
as to why God stood by and did nothing to prevent so many of His own
people from being rounded up like cattle, stripped of their dignity, their
property, their wealth, and their possessions, enslaved, starved,
malnourished, deprived of basic human necessities, tortured, subjected to
Frankenstein medical experiments, worked to death, and gassed, shot, and
incinerated by the millions by Nazi mad men.
The error of that interpretation is so obvious that it's almost below me to
point it out; to wit: Judaism regards human sacrifice as a breach of the
covenant that Moses' people agreed upon with God; and also sincerely
believes that human sacrifice is an abomination.
There are astute Bible scholars of the opinion that the Jewish genocide of the
last century was only a taste of one to come in the future when a super
powerful political figure, known to just about everybody as the anti-Christ,
will target God's people with another mass extinction. They say his won't be
confined to Europe like the last one, but will encompass the entire globe so
that Jews won't be safe anywhere on the planet.
Those scholars also believe that the present State of Israel isn't permanent;
but that it will be conquered and the Jews lose control of their homeland all
over again. I don't know for myself whether those scholars are right, but if
they are, then it would appear that the future of God's people at this point in
time is looking mighty grim, to say the least.
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