If I were a Jew in WWll, I’d probably think that surely God would not let my fellow humans gas me to death.
But it happened anyway. God did not save them.
He is not going to save us. If letting 6 million Jews die in a gas chamber (or other nefarious ways), doesn’t convince you that God doesn’t intervene in the affairs of men...I don’t know what will.
Deuteronomy 28. G-d's promise to the Jews is several fold.
If you follow the commandments, good things will happen. (Good harvest, peace with your family, living comfortably and well.)
If you don't follow the commandments, bad things will happen. (Conquered by outsiders, losing your children, fear, starvation, exile.)
In spite of which, the nation of Israel Weill NEVER fully disappear from the earth.
What does that mean to Jews? Or the Jews in 1939 who didn't flee?
They might not have realized they were enter promise 2, perhaps from the rising Reform movement.
They may thought that they'd be safe due to promise 3.
But the problem with promise 3 is that 99% of the Jews could be horribly murdered with only 1% surviving -- but that 1% is enough to show that G-d kept his word in promise 3.
It's foolish to tempt fate that way.
But we've been through promise 2 multiple times in history already. The Holocaust was just the most recently. There have been other times, particularly the fall of the two temples.
You use the term Jew to loosely. People today think all Israelites are Jews. They are not. The meaning of the word has changed over time and has misled many. The meaning originally applied to the judeans living in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Only a small amount of the tribe of Judah, Benjamin and Levites were there at that time. It is incorrect to refer to the "lost tribes as Jews.
Yeah, strictly speaking it should mean Israelites. But most of the surviving Israelites are from the tribe of Judah, so it became Jews today, though that would include surviving Levites and Benjaminites.
The "lost tribes" refers to those dragged into captivity by the Assyrians.... The Reubenites, Danites, etc. Some may survive, but lost their identity, though some people make that claim here and there.
Man, I wish I understood more on the tribes, how & where they dissipated and each of their general histories. It’s all so convoluted in today’s world. I’m reading an interesting book now that touches on some of it; “The Touchstone Diary”. It’s fact & fiction (drama) & some have labeled it as heretical (cuz it doesn’t fit their narrative), but the author spent 10 years researching for it and I’ve found it fascinating.
If I were a Jew in WWll, I’d probably think that surely God would not let my fellow humans gas me to death.
But it happened anyway. God did not save them.
He is not going to save us. If letting 6 million Jews die in a gas chamber (or other nefarious ways), doesn’t convince you that God doesn’t intervene in the affairs of men...I don’t know what will.
Deuteronomy 28. G-d's promise to the Jews is several fold.
If you follow the commandments, good things will happen. (Good harvest, peace with your family, living comfortably and well.)
If you don't follow the commandments, bad things will happen. (Conquered by outsiders, losing your children, fear, starvation, exile.)
In spite of which, the nation of Israel Weill NEVER fully disappear from the earth.
What does that mean to Jews? Or the Jews in 1939 who didn't flee?
They might not have realized they were enter promise 2, perhaps from the rising Reform movement.
They may thought that they'd be safe due to promise 3.
But the problem with promise 3 is that 99% of the Jews could be horribly murdered with only 1% surviving -- but that 1% is enough to show that G-d kept his word in promise 3.
It's foolish to tempt fate that way.
But we've been through promise 2 multiple times in history already. The Holocaust was just the most recently. There have been other times, particularly the fall of the two temples.
You use the term Jew to loosely. People today think all Israelites are Jews. They are not. The meaning of the word has changed over time and has misled many. The meaning originally applied to the judeans living in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Only a small amount of the tribe of Judah, Benjamin and Levites were there at that time. It is incorrect to refer to the "lost tribes as Jews.
Yeah, strictly speaking it should mean Israelites. But most of the surviving Israelites are from the tribe of Judah, so it became Jews today, though that would include surviving Levites and Benjaminites.
The "lost tribes" refers to those dragged into captivity by the Assyrians.... The Reubenites, Danites, etc. Some may survive, but lost their identity, though some people make that claim here and there.
Man, I wish I understood more on the tribes, how & where they dissipated and each of their general histories. It’s all so convoluted in today’s world. I’m reading an interesting book now that touches on some of it; “The Touchstone Diary”. It’s fact & fiction (drama) & some have labeled it as heretical (cuz it doesn’t fit their narrative), but the author spent 10 years researching for it and I’ve found it fascinating.