I fully understand that this article is extremely sensitive. So sensitive that any Gentile who might submit such an article might be attacked viciously. That is why I am submitting it. As a Jewish-Christian myself, I am used to the attacks; and, just maybe, I can be given a hearing that my precious Gentile brethren may not.

As many of you know, Monday, January 27^th is the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust of World War 2. I won’t recite over again the horrors of those days or the tragic numbers of dead which we all can recall.

My purpose in this article is to inform my readers that the Jewish battle cry, “Never Again!” will soon become a bitter memory as my people face the greater horror of the Holocaust to Come. Zechariah 13:8 foretells it…

“Two-thirds of the people in the land will be cut off and die, says the LORD. But one-third will be left in the land.”

In “the land” of Israel today, are about 5 million Jews. If we assume that the Tribulation begins somewhere in the next 5 years or so, that number will have grown to be 6 million. Two-thirds of 6 million is 4 million! That would be a second Shoah, indeed! But there will be many more victims among my Jewish people.

By many estimates, there are some 11 million additional Jews living outside of Israel today; let us say 12 million in 3-5 years from now. Most scholars of end-times prophecy tell us that somewhere between half to three quarters of all inhabitants of the earth will die during the terrible judgments of the Tribulation.

A conservative figure in between those two estimates would be about two-thirds. If two-thirds of all Jews outside of Israel are struck down in the Tribulation, that would equal some 8 million souls. Add to that the 4 million dead in Israel alone, and you have a total of 12 million Jewish people perishing during “the time of Jacob’s trouble”! (Jer. 30:7).

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Twelve million Jewish victims is equal to exactly twice the number who fell during the Holocaust of World War 2! This, then, is what I call the “Holocaust to Come”!

My precious Jewish people will die because we “remain in our sin” without a Savior, as we read in Ezekiel 18:4b…

“…the soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

We will die because we continued to “hate without a cause” the One who came to rescue us, as our blessed King David prophesied on behalf of the Messiah in Psalm 35:19…

“Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.”

We will die because we lacked knowledge and did not seek to gain it, as our prophet Hosea warned in chapter 4, verse 6 and 7…

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

But, most tragically, the descendants of Abraham will die because we did not understand nor believe the warning of the lesser Shoah 75 years ago!

This is a painful teaching among Israel-loving Gentile Christians; it is completely impermissible to suggest among my own Jewish people, but I ask my readers to consider the following scriptures and decide for themselves who is really most responsible for the Holocaust?

I have heard it taught, and I believe it myself, that one of God’s main purposes in allowing the Holocaust of WW2 was to bring about the creation of the modern state of Israel in fulfillment of His own prophetic word. Praise the Lord for that! But there was another reason as well. The judgment of the Holocaust represents the fulfillment of prophetic scriptures in Deuteronomy 28:15, 25…

“But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you… The LORD will cause you to be defeated by your enemies. You will attack your enemies from one direction, but you will scatter from them in seven! You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth….”

Above are just two verses describing the deadly curses which God spoke through Moses to warn the Jewish people about abandoning Him. But there are 48 more such verses in that same chapter and many, many more similar warnings in other books of the Torah (Old Testament). The entire chapter of Deuteronomy 28 reads exactly like an accurate record of the past 2,000 years of my people’s history, yet it was written 1,500 years before Yeshua (Jesus) by Moses, our blessed teacher! Along with Isaiah 53, Deuteronomy 28 is a chapter that is never discussed in Temples anywhere around the world today. Yet until we acknowledge our guilt before God, we will never be able to respond to His judgments correctly (Zech. 12:10).

Yeshua claimed to be our Messiah, sent by our God to save us from our sins, but we would not believe him. Though it was the sins of the whole world which sent him to the cross, it was the Jewish leaders, along with the Romans, who shared complicity in his crucifixion. Since our rejection of Yeshua, we have lost our Temple and, with it, our ability to offer the blood sacrifices which God provided us for the atonement of our sins! Since our rejection of Yeshua, we lost Jerusalem (70 A.D.) and, a few years later (135 A.D.), the whole land of Israel. Since our rejection of Yeshua, we have wandered, suffered and been persecuted as orphans all over the world. This is exactly what Moishe Rabeinu (Moses our Teacher) predicted would happen in Deut. 28:63, 64a, 37…

“Just as the LORD has found great pleasure in causing you to prosper and multiply, the LORD will find pleasure in destroying you. You will be torn from the land you are about to enter and occupy. For the LORD will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other… You will become an object of horror, ridicule, and mockery among all the nations to which the LORD sends you.”

But we did not remember God’s words, nor did we truly believe them. Even today in the synagogues, the 28^th chapter of Deuteronomy is rarely read, and never are its horrors ascribed to our own failure to obey our God! So, finally, the Lord our God, jealous for his “first-born son” (Exodus 4:22) and determined to restore to Himself at least a remnant, was forced to inflict upon us the Holocaust, and six million had to perish! The enemies of my people who perpetrated the horrors of the Holocaust will not go unpunished by HaShem. But we have missed the truth of our own judgment and blamed the sword alone while blinded to the hand that wielded it!

How is it possible that my brilliant Jewish people still cannot see that for two millennia now, we have incurred all of the curses by which Moses sought to warn us!? How is it possible that my gifted Jewish nation still fails to understand that the fulfillment of these prophetic curses proves that we must have “disobeyed” and “turned away from” our ancient God in some indescribably horrible way!? Some of the highly observant, orthodox Jews want us to believe that we have grieved our God by our lack of piety towards the Laws of Moses. But if piety towards the Mosaic Law was the thing God was looking for, then why did He allow 1,000,000 observant, orthodox Jews to die in the camps along with the secular Jews?

Clearly, we were not dying for our disobedience to the Law, but for some other tragic failure on our part. Could it perhaps be connected to Deut. 18?

“I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him. I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf” (Deut. 18:18-19).

Forty-seven years ago, I first heard that Jesus declared himself to be our own long-lost Jewish Messiah and the Prophet of whom Moses spoke. For 90 minutes, I was literally struck speechless with the mere consideration of that claim. Though a young man, I was given God’s help to reason that if this claim were true, it would explain the entire history of my suffering Jewish “mishpochah” (family) for the past 2,000 years! That day, I prayed that my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, would show me the truth about Yeshua’s Messianic claims. I promptly dropped out of college and spent the next 18 months seeking to prove this claim either true or false. After significant scripture study, and many miraculous signs all pointing to the cross, I bowed my heart and claimed Yeshua as my king…

“Pilate asked Jesus, ‘Are you the king of the Jews?’ Jesus replied, ‘You have said it.’” (Mark 15:2).

How terrible to think of all of the Jewish branches which will soon be broken off! That is why, in closing, I have a challenge for my brothers and sisters who have been “grafted in” to the olive tree of God’s love. Read this article one more time, prayerfully. If you believe it to be biblical and worthy, be bold as a lion and e-mail copies to several rabbis in your city and to any Jewish friends the Lord brings to your heart. If you do not want to be attacked, you may send them my e-mail for their replies. Who knows if, together, we may be used by God to add to the remnant He is saving out for himself, and in so doing, to preserve a precious Jewish soul from the horrible Holocaust to Come!

Asher Mandel (is53@att.net)

Proverbs 3:3 “Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.”

The things that we usually shed tears over are the things that hurt. Today, I am going to talk about good things such as Kindness. Not just ordinary Kindness but one that is so touching that it invokes tears.

In recent months I have been fortunate to experience such Benevolence. One was from my Boss who is also a Christian and who has been so good to me in many ways, so much so that I know she is a ‘specific answer’ to Prayer. She also often tells me that I am a blessing to her, and we have since come to agree that we are a ‘mutual blessing’ to each other.

One day she went out of her way to pay me early due to a financial situation I had. Not only that, she took the time to leave me an uplifting handwritten note in a sweet Christmas card: a book titled Mere Hope, a cute polar bear magnet that said “God still works miracles,” and an additional check to ‘Thank Me’ for all I do. When I saw all of that, I could not help but cry because the Kindness blessed my heart so much! I do not think my Boss will ever know how much that act of Kindness meant to me. She is a remarkable woman, and I really admire her sweet spirit.

Another instance of Kindness that invoked my tears recently was in receiving email comments from people who went out of their way to contact me through Rapture Ready. Those comments could not have come at a more perfect time! It encouraged my spirit so much to know that my writings have helped them in some way. I was also blown away at finding out that people actually cared. One fellow writer was inspired and plans to share his testimony soon too. Just to have people acknowledge, validate, and reaffirm what I have gone through and to let me know they have gone through similar experiences helps me more than I can fully convey.

Excerpts from Bible Knowledge: “Kindness – Fruit of the Spirit”

Here are some of the different definitions of what real kindness is all about:

• Quality or state of being kind
• The steadfast love that maintains relationships through gracious aid in times of need
• Goodness of heart, serviceable, good, gracious, pleasant
• Love for mankind, hospitality, acts of kindness, readiness to help, human friendship, benevolence, taking thought of others
• Goodness in action, sweetness of disposition, gentleness in dealing with others, affability
• The ability to act for the welfare of those taxing your patience – Source

Kindness is huge for me, especially when life has been full of the lack of such. Kindness is an important Fruit of the Spirit too. I believe God wants us to be Kind at all times in every way, and the only way we can do that is through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Excerpts from Focus on the Family: “The Power of Kindness”

Key Points:

• Kindness has the power to soften people’s hearts.
• Kindness is the ability to act for the welfare of those who test our patience.
• To be genuine, kindness must be accompanied by the rest of the fruit of the Spirit.

Family Memory Verse:

Titus 3:4-5 “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we have done, but because of his mercy.”

Scripture Study:

For a more in-depth look at kindness, read these Bible passages:

Matthew 5:43-45 “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

Romans 11:22 “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.”

Ephesians 2:6-7 “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”

Colossians 3:12 “Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;” – Source

My husband is another ‘inspirational example’ of Kindness in my life. The way Doug is ‘wired’ is to be ‘happy-go-lucky’ at all times. He literally wakes up in a good mood, goes to work in a good mood, comes home in a good mood, and goes to bed every night in a good mood. Annoying, I know… lol… but seriously, the ‘happy puppy dog syndrome’ has taxed my nerves more times than I can count over the past nearly 30 years; but when I sit down and really think about it, I know I would not have it any other way!

This man writes me notes every morning just to tell me that he loves me. I have bags in the guest closet of all the sweet little notes that he has written to me. Eventually, I will need to get a chest just to have somewhere to put them all. Doug has been through a lot of adversity in his life as well: growing up poor, parents divorcing at age 10, abuse from a stepdad, running away from home at age 14, and the trauma from our prodigals the past several years. Even still, he displays a Joy, Kindness, and Love in his day-to-day interactions that rival most people I have ever known or met!

Only Abba Father God could have paired me with the ‘perfect husband’ for me. Yes, he has royally let me down; yes, he has made me madder than a Mad Hatter; yes, he has annoyed me to no end, but overall, Doug has been the ‘Kindest Friend’ I have ever had! One who has stuck with me through thick and thin; and for that amount of Kindness, I am forever grateful! I also Thank the Lord for the Love He has given to us for one another.

Sometimes tears are a ‘good thing.’ Happy tears, cleansing tears, and tears invoked by such Loving Kindness. May God bless people who practice this Fruit of the Spirit, for it is a rare thing in these Last Days. Ultimately Kindness is more powerful than Meanness. We can overcome evil with good as God’s Word says.

Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

Romans 12:21 “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.”

Until next time… Maranatha!

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