Why did GOD allow the Holocaust?

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This will be my answer, as there is massive information in the Torah of Moses and the Writing of the Prophets in the Tanakh, which I quote often and strive to leave out my opinion and 'Midrash'. I will state my informed opinion on this matter.

There are some things to get out of the way:

1) Our very actions demand that we receive all of the curses OUR LORD by the Hand of Moses, warned us about. We have not found it  important to do as we promised the GOD OF OUR FATHERS, in that 'We Will Do and we will hear', instead we 'REFUSE' to do or regret or even to consider our path.

2) I have great sympathy for the GOD's Prophets, especially Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel the seer, above the other prophets. Each of these was shown our behavior and the results of that behavior, it must have hurt them deeply to know that their words would actually save so few, of the children of Israel. Fortunately they each knew the end and that there will be some saved alive(souls), not a total waste.

3) I know that the ALMIGHTY KNOWS before saying let there be light, exactly which souls would choose HIM and when. HE IS TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUS, HIS WAY is PERFECT, it is we that aree lost and refuse to seek the RIGHT PATH. I choose the LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL and seek to be righteous before HIM, it is not as difficult as you may have been told.
In truth I have found no reason that HE should not allow it(disaster)  to happen again, for we still refuse to be saved.  And it(disaster) is coming, but I think that you do not know this, do you?

Why? Let us start with a little Leviticus 26: 14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My covenant 16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall make the eyes to fail, and the soul to languish; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

--That is the start of it. The start of what? The start of the curses, when we refuse to listen to GOD; We refuse HIS laws and teachings; we break our deal(covenant) to 'DO and Hear', and stop GOD'S side of the deal, 'The we are Exodus 19:5 HIS treasured People, a Exodus 19:6 ....Nation of Priest. . . . Going on in this chapter, we find that GOD has mercy upon us and checks to SEE if we have learned and changed.

What then? Leviticus 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto Me, and will not hearken unto Me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

This continues seven times greater each time. Until Leviticus 26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. 40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their treachery which they committed against Me, and also that they have walked contrary unto Me. 41 I also will walk contrary unto them, and bring them into the land of their enemies; if then perchance their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then be paid the punishment of their iniquity; 42 then will I remember My covenant with Jacob, and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. . . . .

IF we are not at the LAST DAY, you can save your soul and perchance others will follow your lead. You only need to follow the LAWS from the Hand of Moses(Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.) and keep the covenant(contract) made at Sinai you.(Exodus 20 ..23; accepted in 19 and 24, again in Deuteronomy)
That's the easy way to gain GOD'S BLESSINGS and PROTECTION.

O.k. what have we done today that is a problem? We have used many tools to keep from following GOD'S LAWS. In the Jewish world we have placed these above the LAWS OF GOD, Mishnah, Talmud, Gamarah, Midrash, Traditions, Sages, and a genuine lack of desire to know what we are to do for GOD. We have done everything so that we reject the WORD OF OUR SALVATION. We do add Political Correctness, Social Justice(not JUSTICE), teachings that our children, on their own, discover that we do not speak the truth about GOD because there is conflict in our actions and teachings and sayings and OUR TORAH. A CRYING SHAME for me in watching my people advocate, even run to their own destruction without even considering our history and what we have as proofs of GOD. Are we then Lemmings, eager to run of the cliff?

Another warning: The last day is soon to come, and there will be no time to Stop doing that which GOD abhors and DO that which is Righteous. This all takes time to demonstrate that you have changed and will keep GOD'S LAW. Start today by learning what is in the Covenant (Exodus 20 .. 24) and change your life.

Last Day? Have you heard the phrase 'The World To Come'? On the last day, as I see it, all flesh upon the earth will Burn away and so will the Heavens and the Earth, save those that HASHEM saves as righteous. --other of my writings and it is pervasive in the Tanakh.

Why did GOD allow the Holocaust?  **We reject OUR GOD and HE let the desires of our hearts happen, we got the results, except that we are not totally GONE. Proof text: Ezekiel 14:22 And, behold, though there be left a remnant therein that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters; behold, when they come forth unto you, and ye see their way and their doings, then ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it; 23 and they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings, and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.'

**Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.

Ezekiel 14:3) 'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their mind, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face; should I be inquired of at all by them? 4) Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his mind, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet--I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; 5) that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all turned away from Me through their idols. . . .

And so it goes. Our sins and our idols keep the LORD OUR GOD away from us, and when the troubles come up on those around us, we are not separated from the troubles. In Ezekiel 14, GOD gives us examples of the troubles and a definition of Righteousness that can save you but no one else will you save. Each of us will receive the judgment our deeds earn us. Ezekiel 14:6) Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. --We can change, we need to change, we must change, for if there is anyone you wish to LIVE, your example maybe that thing which helps them return.

 This is Peasach 2014 (April 2014), a time of redemption and what appears to be trouble on many fronts in the world. THE LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL, by keeping HIS LAWS, TEACHINGS and COVENANTS, will take you back, otherwise you can blame none but yourself if you are on the wrong side.

Yaakov

How could the Holocaust be allowed to happen?

This is a difficult question, given the Political correctness ideas, teachings of the SAGES, the ideas from our own hearts, such as: I am not accountable for my words and actions. We simply make rules(laws and rulings) so difficult the the GOD's LAW can not be used. . . .

--I do not like taking a verse of a piece of a verse to create a story or to sell a particular point of view, below I use one verse to make a point, and encourage you to read all of the Joseph Story to gain full understanding of all of the points and lessons to be learned there. The Joseph Story includes Genesis 37 through 50.--

It is even more difficult when in Torah study, Genesis 42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying: 'Spoke I not unto you, saying: Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.' (The child referred to here is Joseph, the incident is when the brothers decided to kill Joseph.) This verse I used to show that Reuben and his brothers, 20 years earlier did something that they now remember could be the source of their current troubles. Note everyone is judged according to their choices, not anyone else's.

This is the JPS1917 translation of the Tanakh, the word 'mind' לִבָּם, Google translates 'heart'. You can read it either way, although I prefer 'mind' as the thinking item, but you can choose, it means the same --your thoughts.

Ezekiel 14:3 'Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their mind, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face; should I be inquired of, at all, by them? 4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his mind, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet--I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; 5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all turned away from Me through their idols.

21 For thus saith the Lord GOD: How much more when I send My four sore judgments against Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast. 22 And, behold, though there be left a remnant therein that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters; behold, when they come forth unto you, and ye see their way and their doings, then ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it; 23 and they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings, and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.'

Please read the complete chapter. It took me five times in a row reading, to understand history, prophecy and personal observation and interaction to see the truth of this.

We are told by THE LORD at the hand of Moses of these events and what GOD is going to do, because of what we DO, these text are in Leviticus 26, and Deuteronomy 28 - 32.

Just like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we refuse to accept responsibility for our actions and only blame somebody else continually. Why should the Judgment change it I am unwilling to Return. The Last Judgment is near. Will you not return to the ONE, LIVING GOD OF ISRAEL.

Return to the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.

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Daily Seeking GOD?

A response to document from Chabod entitled:
 Searching for G-d,
Can “hide and seek” work if the seeker stops searching?

I responded, with only 1000 characters, to only one portion, that of a quote from Deuteronomy 31:18 "....I will surely hide My face in that day....."  The actual text is "18 And I will surely hide My face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods." The context of this verse is contained in Deuteronomy 31:16-18. I will strive to recap --Moses is told that the Children he has been leading will turn away from the LORD when Moses dies and worships other gods. What follows this is a song GOD teaches to Moses, then Moses teaches to the Children of Israel as commanded by GOD "put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel".

The purpose of the song is that we should know why we have so much trouble, especially for the Children of Israel, Over and Over and Over again. This has been laid out for us in Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28 thru 32, which includes the above verses.

Counter Point: We are to do ALL that which the LORD has spoken, not SEEK GOD.

My understandings and evidence supporting this:

GOD'S complaint against Adam:  verse "17:...He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: ...." Adam heard GOD'S voice and turned away from GOD, choosing Eve instead.

We are to do according to the WORD OF GOD.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will hearken unto My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then ye shall be Mine own treasure from among all peoples; for all the earth is Mine; 6 and ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.' --Why be a JEW? For me to be ONE of the Holy Nation, to sever Hashem.
What did the Children of Israel Say: "Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken we will do.' And Moses reported the words of the people unto the LORD."
Exodus 20 All the people heard the first ten sayings and become so afraid that
Exodus 20:15 And they said unto Moses: 'Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.'
Moses tries to reassure them, Exodus 20:16 And Moses said unto the people: 'Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that His fear may be before you, that ye sin not.' GOD'S response: Exodus 20:18 "And the LORD said unto Moses: Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel: Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven."
Then GOD continues giving Moses the LAW, Until Exodus 24.

Moses turns back to the people and Exodus 24:3" And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words which the LORD hath spoken will we do.'"

Up until this point it, the LAW is Verbal, but stated to the Children of Israel as the WORD OF GOD. So Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD,.....7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.' The intervening space 4 and 7, Moses makes 12 alters and offers twelve sacrifices, which are used now: Exodus 24:8 "And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said: 'Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you in agreement with all these words.'"
Hence the LORD and the Children of Israel agree that this writing is the Covenant by which all are bound to observe.

Notice that there is NO SEEKING GOD ANYWHERE. Seeking is for personal reassurance. Seek should never be done prior to or instead of Obeying GOD'S WORD.

"Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.22 None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; for his righteousness that he hath done he shall live."  It is your actions, the results of are the witness for you. Hence,
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered; for his trespass that he trespassed, and for his sin that he hath sinned, for them shall he die.

So what do we learn with this? Stop doing that which is according to GOD evil and do that which is right(Obey the WORD OF GOD) in your every action.

Warning: If you think that you can do evil and then later just do that which is Righteous so that you will be Righteous at your death, REMEMBER You do not know if the next heart beat will be there, nor your next breath, so now, turn back to the LORD GOD and do that which is Righteous. Do that which the LORD declared and caused to be Written.

In all of the Tanakh(Old Testament) no one, ever, was declared by the LORD as evil for not obeying the laws of man, only that we walk contrary to HIS WORD and Covenants. Your soul hangs in the balance, as does you children's soul for your are a TEACHER that your children and everyone that sees you, learn from. Yet it is your soul first.

Seek in the Prophets:

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near;7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of iniquity his thoughts; and let him return unto the LORD, and He will have compassion upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob: 'Seek ye Me in vain'; I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Isaiah 51:1 Hearken to Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

Isaiah 58 starts with a nation that appears to seek GOD to know HIS Ordinances --Do in the Negative.

Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances


Yaakov

Belief in GOD, a requirement?

Exodus 24: 3. . . . 'All the words which the LORD hath spoken will we do.' With all they(Hebrews and those with them) saw and experienced up to this moment, they still made an idol and worshiped it.

Belief is a motivator.

Knowledge of GOD, while it is not required, as long as you are willing to keep HIS LAWS and TEACHINGS in all things. However, from the beginning we humans, being created from the dust to transport the BREATH OF GOD(soul) have been in need of more justification, and encouragement not to give in to our dirt(evil).

When we have this knowledge of GOD, a realization of just how small I am and how important I am, provide greater motivation for self-control. It is still possible to give-in to the dirt, but we are better equipped and motivated not to give in.

Yaakov

You Should Know This and Understand This:

You Should Know This and Understand This:

This link is to the JPS 1917 version Tanakh .

First, THERE IS, AWAYS WAS AND WILL ONLY BE ONE GOD, and each of of us is required to choose and the choice is completely personal, you are either for GOD or against GOD(anything other than GOD is against GOD). You have the Freedom and the Consequences to chose GOD or Not god, the is the Freedom that The MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE has given each of us.

Second, what it means to choose: when we do as GOD has said to do (Find Laws, Explanations and Teachings in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy--they do not change,) we are for GOD, or we are against GOD by doing anything else.

All that follows from here is evidence of support for the choice You must make, NOW before the chance to change is gone.

Deuteronomy 30:15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, [Here we have repeated in various styles, return unto Hashe'm; follow HIS LAW; with all of your heart; with all of your soul;]

Deuteronomy 30:

2) and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, you and your children with all your heart, and with all your soul;

8) And you shalt return and hearken to the voice of the LORD, and do all His commandments which I command you this day.

10) if you will hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

15) See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil,16 in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances; then you will live and multiply, and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land whither you goest in to possess it.

19) I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed; 20) to love the LORD thy God, to hearken to His voice, and to cleave unto Him; for that is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Isaiah 3:10 Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the work of his hands shall be done to him.

Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel, and full of wrath and fierce anger; to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it, 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine 11 And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.

Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him: 'Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.' 5 And to the others He said in my hearing: 'Go ye through the city after him, and smite; let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity; 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the maiden, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.' Then they began at the elders that were before the house. 7 And He said unto them: 'Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain; go ye forth.' And they went forth, and smote in the city. 8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said: 'Ah Lord GOD! wilt Thou destroy all the residue of Israel in Thy pouring out of Thy fury upon Jerusalem?' 9 Then said He unto me: 'The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wresting of judgment; for they say: The LORD hath forsaken the land, and the LORD seeth not. 10 And as for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.'

Ezekiel 18:23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD; and not rather that he should return from his ways, and live?

Jeremiah 4:1 If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, yea, return unto Me; and if thou wilt put away thy detestable things out of My sight, and wilt not waver; 2 And wilt swear: 'As the LORD liveth' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; then shall the nations bless themselves by Him, and in Him shall they glory. {S}

Jeremiah 5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

Jeremiah 6: 16 Thus saith the LORD: stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said: 'We will not walk therein.' 17 And I set watchmen over you: 'Attend to the sound of the horn', but they said: 'We will not attend.' 18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is against them. 19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not attended unto My words, and as for My teaching, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 7:3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying: 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, are these.' 5 Nay, but if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour; 6 if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt; 7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them; for from the least even unto the greatest every one is greedy for gain, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. 11 And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly, saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace. 12 They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination; yea, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they how to blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall, in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith the LORD. {P}
Jeremiah 9:23 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that I am the LORD who exercise mercy, justice, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. {S}

Jeremiah 17: 5 Thus saith the LORD: Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like a tamarisk in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.

Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

Jeremiah 21:14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD

The Torah (Five books of Moses --Leviticus 26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.) and

The Tanakh (Torah, Prophets and Writings) contain the LAW, GOD'S COMPLAINT AGAINST MAN and HOW TO RETURN to RIGHTEOUSNESS and the history giving evidence of the relationship between the ALMIGHTY and man.

You can change your life, your soul and by your change, maybe others you know and those you do not, will choose to change their life. FIRST YOU MUST SEEK THE ONLY LIVING GOD, The GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, there is no other help or Salvation.

Yaakov

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