Dear Refiner's Fire...

Do you think the Holocaust was the fulfillment of the promise of the Jews who all agreed to murder Yaoushua when they said that his blood be upon their children and their children's children? This fits into the puzzle of the prophesies, considering the Germans never really had a clear reason for the murder of the Jews. So, do you think the jews cursed their own children?

Our Response....

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? Perhaps it happened because Satan wanted to wipe out what was left of the Jews, and 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". This earth is but a "blink of an eye", and eternity is forever.

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? God can do whatever He wants, and perhaps He decided to grant those people eternal life. 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....