John Tweedie - The Holocaust

January 7, 2026 | 28:41

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - The Holocaust | January 7, 2026

When historians look back over the history of the world,
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They must surely look at the 20th century
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As the bloodiest of all centuries.
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I mean, we had two world wars,
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And it's estimated that during the second world war,
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Some 50 million people lost their lives.
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Then we had the korean war after that and after the korean
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War, the vietnam war, but hundreds of other wars
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In between.
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And today, in the 21st century, more wars.
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However, when the jewish people look back at their history,
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They must look at that dark period
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Within the second world war.
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That today is called the holocaust.
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Now, the persecution of the jews
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In europe began much earlier in the 1930s,
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But it culminated in the systematic
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Murder of 6 million jewish men, women and children
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In horrible ways, in extermination ditches
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And gas chambers and
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Other brutal ways that we dare not even mention.
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1.5 million jewish children,
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And we call ourselves civilized.
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Yet we've not found a way to stop conflict,
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War and killing.
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How on earth can we explain the systematic murder
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Of 6 million people of any ethnic origin?
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But in this case, they were jewish people
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Who had built lives for themselves
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In the nations of europe.
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How do we explain all that carnage and suffering?
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I will try in this episode of the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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The bible declares that the people of israel are
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A chosen nation, a nation god chose above all other nations.
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It is also clear that god chose the jews,
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So they in turn could be a blessing to all nations.
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This means that abraham's children
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Were to be human channels, through whom god's light
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And the salvation he offered could flow to all the world.
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In fact, it was jesus, the most well known of all jews,
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Who said that salvation was of the jews,
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And surely no other jew before or since.
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Jesus has influenced
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The course of history as much as he has done
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As far as the christian world is concerned.
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Jesus was and is the very means
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Of god's salvation to the whole world.
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The fact that recorded history is divided into two parts,
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Marked by his birth nearly 2000 years ago, is sufficient
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Evidence of the impact of jesus and his lasting influence.
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But if jesus, as an individual jew, has influenced
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And blessed our world,
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What is the broader
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And collective influence of all jews on human existence?
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More importantly,
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How has the world responded to the blessings it has received
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From jewish creativity and ingenuity?
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Sadly, history records that the jewish journey through time
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Has been marked more often
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Than not by extended periods of hardship and suffering.
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This means that being chosen by god
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Does not always mean being free from pain and persecution.
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In fact, there were times when, because of brutal persecution,
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The light of jewish influence and blessing was virtually
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Extinguished.
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You know, it's
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One thing to know that the holocaust occurred,
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But visit a holocaust museum and see the images
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In this latest season of the prophetic connection.
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We're putting up the warning sign, warning graphic images,
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Because we want to bring the story of the holocaust to you.
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In real life terms, we want you to see the images,
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That were taken, at the time that the world
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Has quickly forgotten just what happened not that long ago.
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So here and there, throughout the episodes,
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You will see this warning graphic images.
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And we're not doing that to alarm you,
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But we need to tell and retell the story of the holocaust.
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Because even though we're living
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In the opening decades of the 21st century,
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We see again that the jewish people are being persecuted.
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And how close are we to another holocaust,
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Given the animosity, the hatred we see all over the world?
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The holocaust never should have happened.
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But the truth is, it did.
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And if we're not careful, it could happen
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Again.
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The fact that the holocaust occurred in so-called 20th
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Century christian europe raises serious questions
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About any society's ability to rise above its prejudices.
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Adolf hitler's obvious hatred of jews, his rise
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To political prominence in germany during the 1920s
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And his subsequent election as chancellor in 1933,
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Can all be seen in retrospect as dark omens,
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Which preceded what historians refer to as the holocaust.
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This systematic attempt to wipe out the jewish presence
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In europe.
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Ironically, this worst nightmare in jewish history
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Occurred at a time when the jews,
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Through successive generations, had already contributed
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Much to europe's well-being in many areas of human endeavor.
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Jewish researchers were making significant
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Scientific and medical advancements
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For the benefit of civilization as a whole.
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But hitler was not impressed by jewish achievements.
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Instead, he was aggravated by them.
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His vision of germany had no room for jews,
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And if jews had any value at all,
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It was as scapegoats who could be blamed
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For germany's socio economic problems.
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The harsh economic realities that plagued europe
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In the aftermath of world war one proved to be ideal breeding
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Grounds for adolf hitler's political aspirations.
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Germans were suffering under the burden of a costly war.
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They had initiated and lost.
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While german nationalism had been struck a heavy blow.
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But all of this was to hitler's advantage.
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He realized that if he could appeal to german pride,
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If he could harness the collective german consciousness,
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He might then seize political power.
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Not surprisingly,
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It didn't take long for hitler's latent antisemitism to point
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An accusing finger at germany's jewish population as the
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Primary reason for germany's economic and other woes.
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It was the jews, hitler argued, who started wars in order to
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Profit from them.
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That jews were successful in many spheres of german
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Society, seemed to support hitler's contentions.
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The fact that jews lived
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As a distinct society within germany also meant
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They could be more easily marginalized.
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Something hitler also used to his advantage.
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Of course, hitler was not the first to recognize
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That jewish biblical and cultural distinctiveness,
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While preventing the assimilation
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Of jews among the nations, also made them appealing scapegoats.
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But whatever jews had suffered in the past
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Would soon pale in comparison to what they would suffer
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During hitler's final solution,
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An attempt to eradicate the jewish nation once and for all.
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Hitler nearly succeeded.
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By the time the war ended in 1945, one third of all jews
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Approximately 6 million, including 1.5
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Million jewish children, had been systematically murdered.
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But if hitler initiated the holocaust,
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How could the nations of the world allow it to continue?
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What had the jewish people done
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To warrant their systematic mass murder?
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And even if it can be argued
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That western nations were initially unaware
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That the holocaust was taking place,
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Why were these same nations so reluctant
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To accept jewish refugees who were trying to escape
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The punitive measures already being enacted by the nazis?
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Even before world war two had begun?
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Of course, there are even more profound questions than these.
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If the jews were god's chosen people, his light bearers
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To the nations, then where was god during the holocaust?
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The jewish
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People have struggled since the beginning.
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Abraham, our father, was not universally popular.
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He was thrown into an oven and he emerged.
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You know, he had to fight wars.
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He had against the five kings.
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He had to chase and rescue his nephew lot.
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Okay.
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He became a very successful man, abraham,
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And had many, you know, converts and followers
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Who came to know god through, through abraham.
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But from that time, all the way in jewish history,
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This has not been a, you know, an easy ride.
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But if jews had struggled under successive masters
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Within the land of israel,
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They struggled just as much beyond it,
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Especially during periods of prolonged exile.
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The bible says explicitly that when the jews will
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Will lose their land in as we did, and from rome,
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And when this temple was destroyed in the year 70,
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Once we lose our land, we will go to the countries
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Of the world.
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And one of the verses in deuteronomy is,
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Lawyer maniacal covering him.
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There will be no rest
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For your feet during all those years of exile.
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And that is in fact what happened.
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We had sometimes a few hundred years
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Of stability in one country or another, but eventually
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That was the torah message to the jewish people.
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There is only one place for the jewish people, that's israel.
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And you will wander.
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And that wandering, unfortunately,
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Was caused by a tremendous, tremendous persecutions.
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Throughout history,
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One of the greatest
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Times of persecution was first, at the time of esther,
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When the persian king wanted to kill all of the jews
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In the roman empire
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Simply because they observed a different set of laws.
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Fortunately, that plan was abated,
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And the book of esther takes us through all of the ways
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In which god maneuvered through
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Esther and mordecai to bring about a better result.
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While it is clear
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That an all powerful god allowed jewish suffering,
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The biblical account makes it equally clear
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That there were other times when god acted to prevent,
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Or at least limit, jewish suffering.
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The story of esther,
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As recounted in the book which bears her name,
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Is one recorded example of god's intervention.
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It is also one
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Of the first examples of obvious anti-semitism, as illustrated
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By the life of heymann, an influential,
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If jew hating courtier in the service of the persian king.
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Now, already in the book of esther,
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Hey man comes and speaks to ahasuerus
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And says,
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There is one people
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Who are different from all the people of the world.
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They want to hearken to the laws of the kings.
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They have different laws and different say.
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They let me extinguish.
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The light.
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Let there be light. base it.
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That's it. that is. that is the pathology of it.
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Let there be light by extinguishing
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The jew.
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Antisemitism, or the inclination to hate
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And persecute jews is evident throughout recorded history.
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Cross-cultural in nature.
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It can remain virtually dormant in one generation,
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Only to surface with great ferocity in the next.
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And surprisingly,
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It seems to have done so more often in the so-called
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Christian nations than in non-christian ones.
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During the middle ages, when the populations of europe
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Were ravaged by plagues caused by germ carrying rodents.
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Jews were commonly accused of poisoning wells
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As a means of gaining social advantage.
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The jewish practice of ritual handwashing before meals,
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Which on one hand limited jewish exposure to germ transfer,
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Also invited suspicion because fewer jews were dying of disease
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In proportion to the general population.
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Here again, the scapegoat label was readily
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Applied to the jews. someone had to be blamed
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For this calamity of untimely deaths.
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Look at the middle ages
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And jews were accused of poisoning wells.
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Well, if that's true,
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And i'm a decent person, and i want to defend my children
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From all this poison, then i have an obligation.
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Even if i'm a good person. and that's how.
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And that's how you were able to get many good people
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To participate in the attempts
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To exterminate jews throughout history.
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The poisoning the wells.
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They're using the blood of children
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For max at what i got, i got to protect my children.
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Blood libel.
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The practice of accusing jews of killing gentile children
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So their blood could be used for jewish ritual feasts, such
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As the passover meal, was yet another insult hurled at jews.
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Jews.
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It was commonly believed, added gentile children's blood
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To matzah, the bread eaten during the passover celebration.
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But in one sense
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This was simply an extension of the long held belief
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That jews
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Were collectively responsible for the crucifixion of christ.
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This perverted view of christian history
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Saw all jews, living or dead, as christ killers.
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Ironically, jesus, as he was hanging
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From the cross, petitioned
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His father to forgive all those who were crucify him.
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Both jews and gentiles.
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But this was a biblical and historic fact
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That anti-semites were quick to ignore.
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Steeped as they were in willful ignorance, their hatred of jews
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Had no room for benevolence, much less mercy.
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But traditionally, the jew is a physical threat.
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He killed god. he's dangerous.
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Which explains why throughout history,
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So many incredibly violent accusations of a level
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Against the jew. he's. he's physically malevolent.
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He can kill you.
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He can poison your.
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Well, he's the jews portrayed as the devil in medieval europe.
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He is the devil. the devil wears the jewish side.
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He has the jewish nose, gets the jewish hat.
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Unfortunately, people very quickly can slip into hatred.
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Especially especially when these propaganda machines
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Are successful in presenting the jews as threat.
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When the jews can be presented as a threat
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To other people, to humanity, then even a good person will
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Want them to be destroyed. why?
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Because he has to defend himself.
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He has a right to self-defense.
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If the jews were just slime and dirt, then.
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So no, you don't have to do anything.
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But if they're endangering
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The existence of humanity, then you are justified.
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Not only justified, but you as a decent person
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Have an obligation to destroy those people.
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The prevailing view of jews as christ killers
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Also helps to explain why, during the centuries
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Of the christian
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Crusades, jews were singled out for unspeakable brutality,
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While the christian knights saw themselves
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As liberators of god's holy land,
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They were just as quick to see jews having no rights at all,
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Something they had forfeited by their killing of christ.
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It is for this reason the crusaders showed
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Little mercy to jews both before
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And after they reached jerusalem.
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Many jews were forced
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Into synagogues that were then set on fire,
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Even as the knights celebrated holy communion, and believed
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That the killing of jews was god's will.
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But if the crusades claimed thousands of jewish lives,
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The holocaust a millennium later would claim millions more,
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Proving that anti-semitism had a long reach.
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The holocaust is not a unique, singular event.
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Okay is perhaps the most outrageous
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And the most comprehensive and scary
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Because it was done with modern technology,
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With a ruthlessness
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And a singleness of purpose, which, you know, perhaps
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These other events never, never had.
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But it's part of a chain.
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And, you know, we say in, in each and every generation
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Someone has come, you know, to it to destroy the jews.
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There is one good
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Trend that is occurring, however,
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And that is that holocaust museums are springing up
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All over the world in the major cities
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And those museums to capture the story of what happened
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During the second world war to the european jews.
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And their images are graphic, too.
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And there are video rolls, and we see the piles of corpses.
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We see the the oven doors are opened
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And we see the remains of or people who live jewish
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People who live, but whose lives were taken from them.
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So these museums stand as a testimony to what happened.
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Then they record the names
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Of the 6 million people that were lost.
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And that's and we need we need to take the younger
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Generation to these museums and to educate them,
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To touch their hearts and
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Invade their
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Minds in a sense so that this will be in their minds
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And they will work to prevent another holocaust occurring.
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We need to teach the next generation,
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Because the
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Propaganda machine against the jews is in full swing,
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And this is one means of counteracting that evil
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Negative influence.
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They were god's chosen
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Children, his light bearers to the nations.
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For centuries, they had made europe their home
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With their love of learning,
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They had made enormous contributions
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To european societies.
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They could count among their proportionately
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Smaller population
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Some of europe's finest scholars and best musicians.
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Yet when anti-semitism reared its ugly head,
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All they had given was quickly forgotten,
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And their greatest achievements could not save them.
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Hitler's rise to political ascendancy in 1933,
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Coupled with his ability
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To capitalize on the resurgence of german nationalism,
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Resulted in the jews
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Being transported to their deaths by the millions,
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A systematic slaughter of one
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Ethnic segment of europe's broader population.
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The jewish problem, as hitler called it,
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They saw themselves as german jews.
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Hitler and his henchmen saw them as subhuman
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And therefore worthy of extermination.
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But if these educated jews were guilty of anything,
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It was that they naively put too much trust in human nature,
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Since the holocaust had no historic precedent.
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No one could have imagined such horrors were possible
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In what was supposed to be the 20th century civilized europe.
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One of the weirdest, and it's really a supernatural
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Aspect of anti-semitism, is that the greatest explosions
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Of anti-semitism
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Have pretty much all taken place in places
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Where jews seemingly are most acceptable,
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Most successful, and most comfortable.
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The classic example is jews in germany before the holocaust,
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Or jews in spain
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Before the expulsion, or jews in poland
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Before the khmelnytsky massacre in the 17th century,
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Or going all the way back in
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Time to the jews in egypt 3500 years ago,
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Where they were doing great in egypt,
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Having been there for centuries.
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Often jews feel truly at home in the diaspora.
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But history has shown repeatedly that after a period of time
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It maybe 200 years or maybe 150 years,
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It might even be closer to 300 years.
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Something happens and they are exiled again.
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Most of us
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Today remember the holocaust and the period of time
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That led up to the slaughter of roughly 6 million jews
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During the period of the nazis?
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Why were the jews,
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Who had been part of europe's cultural mosaic for centuries,
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Repeatedly singled out for persecution?
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Why did they, more than any other ethnic group,
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Suffer so much?
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Some will argue that the answer to these questions
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Is to be found in jewish customs, and distinctiveness.
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The fact that the jews were different
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And habitually dressed differently
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Than the general population.
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Others will say it was because they were never quite free
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From the accusation that they were christ killers.
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You know, we've called this
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Latest season of the prophetic connection
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Israel a blessing to all nations.
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And of course, that comes from god's promise to abraham,
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Who became abraham when god said to him, i will bless you.
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I will make of you a great nation
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And the nation that comes from you will be a blessing.
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That's the theme
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Of this latest season of the prophetic connection.
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And we're doing this
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Very deliberately to counteract all the negativity,
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The animosity against the jewish people that we see
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In the opening decades of the 21st century.
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I mean, the evil propaganda
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Machine, is working overtime these days,
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And we can see its influence on university campuses.
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And in fact, at the teaching level of universities
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Where the is there is anti-israel sentiment
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Being taught.
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And it's almost a repeat of the 1930s where,
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The propaganda machine, ramped up
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And then it became the ghetto system to marginalize the jews.
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University professors who were jews lost their positions.
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Books
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That were written by jews were burned in the open square.
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And then we had kristallnacht, which was that dark night
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In 1938 when jewish businesses were attacked and burned.
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And all of that was a result of the nazi propaganda.
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So the propaganda we see today is having a similar effect.
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And if we don't get a hold of it,
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If we don't stand up against it,
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Bad things can happen to the jewish people.
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In fact, they're already happening.
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We would have thought that the events of october 7th, 2023
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Would have been a wake up call for the whole world to say
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Evil is once again rising up against the jews.
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On that day, in the form of a massacre
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Of israeli citizens beside the border with the gaza strip,
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Jewish people today
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Are referring to october 7th, 2023
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As the darkest day since the european holocaust.
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But it is can be as well, a harbinger of worse things
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To come.
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If people of goodwill don't rise up,
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If the christian church doesn't
00:26:20.248 --> 00:26:21.883
Stand up
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Against these evil trends that we're seeing all
00:26:22.951 --> 00:26:26.354
Over the world, once again,
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Tomorrow will be too late.
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Today is the time for us to stand up,
00:26:32.260 --> 00:26:35.830
To stand for the jewish people, and to do what we can to fight
00:26:35.830 --> 00:26:39.701
The propaganda that is against them.
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And it's part of the reason we do the prophetic connection,
00:26:42.737 --> 00:26:45.440
So people will understand god's heart for the jewish people.
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He birthed this nation to begin with.
00:26:50.378 --> 00:26:52.914
He has plans and purposes for israel that will be
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Fulfilled in his time, because he is a sovereign god.
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But in the meantime, we have a calling
00:27:00.455 --> 00:27:04.292
To serve him through helping the people of israel,
00:27:04.292 --> 00:27:07.929
This special nation that he cherishes.
00:27:07.929 --> 00:27:11.533
He's keeping his promises through them.
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Watch and see how the remaining prophecies
00:27:14.135 --> 00:27:17.238
Are fulfilled in the days that lie ahead in.
00:27:17.238 --> 00:27:17.238

John Tweedie - The Holocaust

January 7, 2026 | 28:41

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