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This passage has been used by anti-semites for centuries (especially during the Middle Ages) to justify the killing of Jews. This was just a statement
by the Jewish leaders to emphasize their determination to following through with the killing of Yeshua. This is a very Middle Eastern way of
communicating....much the same way when Saddam Hussein called the 1991 Gulf War the "Mother of all wars."
Yet on the other hand if this statement actually did bring a curse on the Jewish nation, it would have been fulfilled between 70 and 150 AD when the
Romans came in and almost wiped out the entire Jewish population in Israel, completely destroyed Jerusalem, plowed it under like a field, and rebuilt a
city over it dedicated to the Roman gods.
As for the Holocaust? It was all started by one satanic madman, and the crowds followed blindly in a kind of mass hysteria because they needed someone to blame for Germany's impending demise. It was the rare person who recognized Hitler for who he was....Just like it is the rare person who loves Yahweh enough to find out for him/herself what the Scriptures actually say.
Perhaps the Holocaust happened because Satan wanted to wipe out what was left of the Jews, and he used Hitler as his pawn. However, God - knowing in advance that this would happen - used the Holocaust to make one of His end-time prophecies come true: For the blink of an eye after WWII, the world briefly felt sorry for the Jews and returned Israel to them - thus fulfilling Old Covenant prophecy that they would become a "nation" again. This Supernatural Plan was confirmed in 1967 when when SEVERAL Arab states (including Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria) went to war against tiny Israel to take the Land from the Jews. Against all odds, the Jews KEPT Israel....obviously because God WANTED them to have and keep it!
Yes, many Jews died, but they didn't die in vain because they always were, and always will be God's "Chosen". Yahweh never forsook His People and He never will; He said so!
Some believe that the Jews who died in the Holocaust went to hell because they didn't believe in Jesus. But, in all honesty, who can really say? Yahweh is God and He can do whatever He wants, and perhaps He decided to grant those people eternal life, who really knows? After all, there is more to having a relationship with God than just "believing in Jesus." The Bible tells us that He wants NONE to perish, and He tells us that "time", according to human standards, is irrelevant. A day is like a thousand years, and vice versa (2 Peter 3:8). So, a "second" should be long enough to give someone a final chance to accept Yeshua as their final SIN Sacrifice....
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