Praise God for Yeshua/Jesus, whose name is the Word of God, and about whom the whole of the Book is written! Moses in the Torah points to our need of Him who saves all who believe from the death sentence upon all who seek their own righteousness as a way of salvation.
There is a spiritual law which says that as you judge, so shall you be judged; therefore be careful how you judge. It’s written that even the Gentiles have a law unto themselves, and they know what is acceptable or unacceptable between them, and judge accordingly. Even groups like the Mafia have their own code of law that they use to judge amongst themselves. In Ezekiel 18, YHVH God, who knows the thoughts and intentions of the heart, says to Israel — and to the rest — that the Chosen People think that the Lord’s ways are not right — do not make sense. But He says, isn’t it that your ways are not right — do not make sense?! The judgments of God are past finding out, and no one is able to live up to His high and holy standard of righteous — none, that is, except for the sinless Son of God/Son of Man, whether He is known as Yeshua Messiah, or as Jesus Christ. The perfect way of the only wise God and Savior says to Israel (and to the Gentiles), “My way doesn’t make sense to you, then I will judge you by your own standard. . .and unless you repent, you will die! Why should you die, O Israel!?” The Lord Yeshua will be found perfectly just when He judges (Ps 51:4; Jn 5:22-24).
I believe that God is compressing all of history into this last generation, so that when He judges, all will know His righteousness. The last days shall be as the beginning: the way of Cain; as in the days of Noah and the flood; as in the days of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah. All these episodes of human history have been recorded for us and impressed upon the human consciousness to ‘help’ people fear YHVH, the righteous Judge of all the Earth. But, as the apostle to the Jews writes for us, we willfully forget; there is a collective amnesia which sears the conscience, with the false hope that there isn’t really the God that the Bible and the Holy Spirit tell us IS.
All normal people recognize that the Holocaust really occurred. There are many dear German Christians who have sought the mercies of God over their sins, and the sins of their relatives, repenting of them, and showing genuine and tangible love for the Jewish people and for the nation of Israel. Those who would publicly deny the Holocaust, and seek to persuade others likewise, have absolutely no basis in historical truth against the vast amount of evidence and of still living eyewitnesses on both sides to testify of the great horror and sin, and of their thankfulness that the Jewish people and Israel nonetheless survived and have even prospered. Some praise God for this; others praise themselves; others are still simply devastated by it all.
Without acknowledging the Word of God, the Jewish people say that all German people are guilty the Holocaust, whether or not they were directly involved, and whether or not they were even alive at that time. Yet this is indeed what the Bible teaches: in Adam we all have sinned; in our rulers the people become guilty (Lev 4); we and our fathers have sinned against the Lord. Only through personal repentance and faith in Jesus and His sacrificial death for us, and His resurrection from among the dead is a person freed from this inherited ‘original’ sin. Just as the Jewish people have and are judging the German nation, so is the God of Israel still holding His own people to account for the very thing which we have sought to deny, dismiss, escape, forget — and to get others to do the same (Mt 27:62-66; 28:11-15; Acts 3:12-26): the crucifixion and the resurrection of the very one whom God has made the Scapegoat for OUR sin of unbelief, rebellion, and dishonor against our Father God and against His Son.
As God is sovereignly working out His history to save His people from their sins, He is also going to judge them by their own conduct; and unless they repent, they will die by their own standard of righteous judgment towards others who have sinned against them. Israel does not and can not live up to its own lower standard: they say, “we will never forgive and never forget!” If this is so with God’s own people and inheritance, how much more so will He judge nations and persons who willfully seek Israel’s calamity! God does forgive, and He no longer holds our sin against us: He “forgets”. This last generation is being brought before the one true God, and will know first-hand His righteousness throughout the ages. He changes not, so that we are not consumed.
Please pray for the repentance unto salvation for Jewish people everywhere, that in loving the Lord, they would also honor all those who fear Him and do righteousness.