Wednesday, November 8, 2023

A Painful Reminder From The Past



"He (God) uncovers deep things out of darkness and brings into light
black gloom and the shadow of death."
(Job 12:22)


"This is the closest place to hell on earth".
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Photograph courtesy/Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
 and State Museum of the Holocaust
Krakow, Poland


"I have to tell you though, that even with all the encouragement and bright spots we shared,
this was also an extremely difficult and challenging time due to the history of the location.
We were not far from Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious Nazi death camps.
I had never been there, and I took a group tour with many of my colleagues. And, as
one person in the group observed, "This is the closest place to hell on earth."

  "I was struck by the fact that the Nazis were not only anti-Semites, 
 they were anti-life!  They inflicted pain and suffering with expert precision
 causing as much death as possible.  What they did was so evil you
could feel it oozing out of the ground."
-David Brickner
Executive Director of Jews for Jesus
 

I reflected on  Mr. Brickner's words regarding his recent trip
 to Poland this morning when I read that voters in Ohio yesterday
 approved of an amendment guaranteeing a "constitutional right "
to abortion and other forms of "reproductive health care" in that state.

The people in the state of Ohio have decided to officially taint their own
ground with the enshrinement of one of the greatest evils of our time. 

I was further reminded that there is a reason why a place like Auschwitz has
  been left standing for eighty three years even after the end of World War II.
 
 It is there
 to remind the world of the existence of evil and that when people
choose to ignore, or are indifferent to it, evil will continue to influence
 the hearts and minds of self-centered human beings who have allowed
 themselves to be blinded by the god of this world.


Ohio voters have added abortion rights to their state constitution
(November 7, 2023)
Photograph courtesy/NBC News


As David Brickner aptly observed about the Nazis: 

"Their whole approach to the world around them was satanic.
  Some think that when the Second World War ended, Nazi-ism was defeated.
  How I wish that 
were true. But the spirit of Nazi-ism is not dead because
 Satan is 
very much alive and working his plans for death into the fabric 
 of our human society.  Much of it is plain to see.  But he also works in
 subtle ways that people don't always realize."

Like convincing much of America to bow its knee to the worship of Molech,
 in the guise of " my body, my choice" and the sacred cow of "reproduction rights".

"He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in truth,
because there is no truth in him.  When he speaks a falsehood, he
speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar himself and the
father of lies and all that is false."
(John 8:44)


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Quotes by David Brickner from the article,
"Out of the Ashes: Reflections from Poland"
(September 28, 2023)
Jews For Jesus Newsletter
(November 7, 2023)
 By David Brickner
Executive Director of Jews For Jesus



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