The Shoah - The Valley of Very Dry Bones Comes Alive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

" And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?
And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. "
Ezekiel 37:3

The Shoah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust


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... thank God for believers who have a heart for Israel. Their shoulders will buckle under the crowns the Lord will place on their heads.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Luke 12:34


Of course not, and it wouldn't matter if they had been.

A most important priority was to rescue and nurture the survivors, the 'kedoshim'.

For those who are still alive, that priority is the same. Stephen Speilberg's archiving on CD rom of their testimonies also gives them hope of 'never again'. When they see the following scriptures they feel their survival and existence has not been in vain, it gives them hope and renews their faith in God. It also can be a bridge for discussion about the 'Messiah'.


Ezekiel 37:1-28
1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,

2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

6And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

7So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.

8And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

9Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.

10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

12Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

13And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

14And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.


15The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:

17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

18And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

19Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

21And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

25And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

27My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

28And the gentiles shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.




Certainly the above may be spiritualized/allegorized to apply to Israel in the land today, largely in unbelief - but it is difficult for a survivor to readily accept that, instead of the above.

Love in Jesus

voice

Valley of the Dry Bones Ezekiel Chapter 37



(click with discretion)
http://www.focusonjerusalem.com/upfromthegraves.html

A Tefillah for Israel - A Prayer for Israel


http://www.acwitness.org/psalm83english.html

Voice....

Everytime I see this I cry. (as I am right now)

But I think its so very important to keep their memory alive in us. And to remember these horrible atrocities so that we never allow it to happen again.

You would be proud of my girls. I've taught them about this and they both have read some books and done reports on it. Kids these days don't know too much about it.

This is a very powerful video. I remember the first time I saw it when you posted it. I've since shared it with many people.

I would like to add some poetry that a friend of mine writes.

You might have heard of her. She has transcribed hundreds of Holocaust stories and they are in the Holocaust Museums. She now has her PhD in Jewish studies.



This one made me cry....

Behind the Monastery
Lois E. Olena

My fingers froze today
when I stood in the rain
behind a Polish monastery-
cold, wet
arms heavy, shaking with fear
and my allowed bundle.

The light from the candles
of my warm home
followed after me
like long shadows chasing,
crying for my return.
Front door agape
gentile rape
trucks at the gate
goyische ants in a long line
carrying off 600 years of history,
tucking it lustily into their
conscience-seared pockets.

Bone wet
I watch
as Council members
under rifle
dig obediently
and the earth opens up
to swallow my rabbi
and his sons.

Mach schnell! I hear in my nightmare...
and as I turn to leave,
I notice that the earth still moves
where they buried my heart.

One that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing the sheaves with them.
Psalm 126:6

I am proud too - I've been praying for everyone until this time and will continue.
We who are believers know what is happening and what is going to happen as we watch day by day. It is the 'Divine mystery' of the Jewish redemptive 'process' that
I am trying to figure out - in the same way that Shoah survivors say 'why me?', Jewish believers, in contrast with their unsaved people also say 'why me?'. Considering what is about to happen sooner than we can imagine, Jewish believers (and of course also the grafted - ones) are already in a sense survivors. I am certain that no 'survivor' would ever want to repeat that experience, yet the time of Jacob's Trouble is approaching. We know that unsaved Jewish souls are looking in here - it could mean the difference between succumbing or surviving.

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
Isaiah 26:20

My prayers are with you Oh Israel....and for all of us to return to our first love..

JESUS IS LORD.

Jesus the LORD is NOW and always HAS been forevermore in the Midst of you and all of us...SEEK, ASK, KNOCK...he's coming in his Glory....LOOK up for your redemption draweth neigh.
Oh how he loves us...let us also be found in his grace and love.towards and in Christ and to one another....Amen


I like your name VOICE...the VOICE of the LORD is ALL POWERFUL and quick to the bone and marrow...let us lift up our
voices together...for whom can stop our praise...EVEN THE VERY ROCKS WILL SING...AMEN JESUS IS OUR KING.

You won't believe this.....but I was just sitting her and praying and meditating on this. Really...the Holy Spirit is here with me and I was asking God the same thing. Why?

It is one of those many questions we will have for Him in heaven.

PASSOVER.

THE VOICE of the LORD is speaking to our hearts...and is very Powerful..be Still and KNOW he IS GOD.

for all CREATION GROANS for the manifesting of the SONS OF GOD.

WILL HIS GLORY BE SEEN IN THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL?....he keeps telling me Yes.

but who will give thee HONOR of GOD OUR FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY LIGHTS...who was, and is, and is to come. I am in prayer.

http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn9YC5KpnZQ&feature=related

Jason Upton

werenotalone......

God bless you. I'm listening to that song now. How very true.

Amen x

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Nation & World

Arabs Who Saved the Jews
By Will Sullivan Posted 12/3/06 Since 1963, Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, has honored more than 21,000 people for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. None have been Arab, and little has been written about the persecution of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa during World War II. It is a gap Robert Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, tackles in his new book, Among the Righteous, where he looks for hope in a region rife with Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.




What inspired you to write the book?

The emotional trigger was being in Manhattan on 9/11 and having the image of a puff of smoke emerging from the north tower [of the World Trade Center] morph in my mind into the chimneys of Auschwitz. That got me on the trail of thinking about Holocaust denial throughout the world. The political rationale was to try to find a single Arab who saved a single Jew, which I thought would be a twist that might help lance the boil of Holocaust denial.

How did you find these stories?

Without the Internet, I don't think this book could have been written. I had, for example, a posting on a website that serves the Jewish community of Tunisia. I'm living in Morocco, and I received an E-mail from a 71-year-old Tunisian Jewish woman living in California who tells her story of how when she was 11 years old, an Arab in her hometown in Tunisia saved her and her family.

How does the experience of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa compare with those in Europe during World War II?

The Holocaust is overwhelmingly a European story, and I think that's important for me to say. But for the people in Arab lands who suffered, their suffering was real and powerful and gripping and painful. When you look at the total experience, there were no death camps set up in Arab lands. There were over 100 sites of forced labor that have been recognized by the German government. In one Italian camp in North Africa alone, where 2,500 people were interned, more than a quarter of them died from the terrible conditions.

How common were Arabs who saved Jews?

First, one should not make the yardstick too high. I myself found a handful of stories. You had examples of government officials warning Jews that the SS was going to come and arrest them. You had examples of government officials providing protection. I also tell stories of Arabs whose unusual kindness for Jews probably saved Jewish lives. It could be Arabs who took Jews into their homes after they'd escaped from bombed-out villages or Arab wet nurses who took in Jewish babies because Jews were at the bottom rung of the ration ladder.

Why have Jewish groups like Yad Vashem not pursued these stories more aggressively?

It's not Yad Vashem's job to track down rescuers. Their function is to vet the people who are proposed to them by others. However, at the same time, because of the powerful symbolic value and the importance of including a story of the Holocaust in Arab lands, I would have hoped that other institutions and other scholars would have done this before me.

Many of the relatives of Arabs who saved Jews did not know about their ancestors' actions. How did they react to your research?

I was surprised about how reluctant many of [them] were to join with me in celebrating the wonderful humanitarian deeds of their fathers and grandfathers. I don't want to say it applied to everyone I talked to. But I was shocked, for example, when I went into the home of the children and grandchildren of one humanitarian in Tunisia, and I wanted to ask their help in bringing to light this gentleman's great deeds. They said they had no idea, that they wanted more proof, and they were very happy to see me leave. Sometime over the last 60 years it became unacceptable to be seen as having saved Jews.



REMINDER. The remains of a camp in eastern Morocco
What reaction have you gotten from Arab readers?

The reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. I think the most poignant response I received was from one Arab who wrote me and said, "Thank you for telling the stories of heroes, but thank you also for telling the stories of villains. It is so important for the world to know that we Arabs are not cardboard cutouts."

You describe the book as "the most hopeful story I have ever told." How so?

I believe it provides tools to help to open people's minds. For me, the main target audience in the Arab world is not the jihadists. Their minds are closed. It is the vast middle, whose main characteristic is either ignorance or disinterest or being susceptible to various ideas. They're the people on the front lines of the greatest battle of our day, the battle against the ideology of radical extremism.




http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061203/11qa_2.htm


And there will be a highway from Assyria For the remnant of His people who will be left, Just as there was for Israel In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 11:6