Shalom and Blessings!
This coming week, on April 27th we have the opportunity to make a difference in the world by taking a stand with Israel and the Jewish community on the "Day of Remembrance".
The Rabbi from Tarsus, Paul reminds us in Romans 12 to "Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn." To this end, we stand with the Jewish people, mourning their lose & suffering, remembering those who perished and honoring those who have survived. We also stop to rejoice, as we see the generations restored, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren once again proclaiming the sovereignty of God - and we promise that neither they nor their posterity will ever stand alone again.
Today, we chose to stand and let the nations know that never again will the Christian community remain silent as the world turns it back on Israel and propagates its anti-Semetic rhetoric. Never again will we listen to the council of the wicked, walk the path with sinners, nor sit with scoffers. We have chosen to delight ourselves in the Law of our God and be a blessing to those whom He has chosen to bless. We have chosen to be the servants of the most High God, the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, the King of Israel.
Click here: Please Join with Us Sunday, April 27th
Let the World Know where You Stand!
April 22nd - April 27th in Hungary
Germans And Hungarians, Jews And Christians, Descendants Of The Perpetrators And The Victims Walking Together With Friends From All Over Europe And America.
Remembrance, Repentance, And Reconciliation
The year 2014 carries a special significance for Hungary: It has been 70 years since the mass deportations, massacres, and death marches of the year 1944. Today will decide Hungary's future. Among the recent developments that cause great concern is the high rate of anti-Semitism among the population, as well strong support for Nazi parties such as "Jobbik", which is even represented in parliament.
 Hungarian Jews arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau  Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jews waiting near gas chamber #4 prior to their murder, May 1944 |
The Murder of Hungarian Jewery
In April 1944, Hungarian authorities ordered Hungarian Jews living outside Budapest (roughly 500,000) to concentrate in certain cities. Hungarian gendarmes were sent into the rural regions to round up the Jews and dispatch them to the cities where they were forced into ghettos. Hungarian authorities forbade the Jews from leaving the ghettos and police guarded the perimeters of the enclosures. Individual gendarmes often tortured Jews and extorted personal valuables from them. None of these ghettos existed for more than a few weeks and many were liquidated within days.
In mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began to systematically deport the Hungarian Jews. SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann was chief of the team of "deportation experts" that worked with the Hungarian authorities.
In less than two months, nearly 440,000 Jews were deported from Hungary in more than 145 trains. This dreadful efficiency of the German mass murderers was unfortunately only possible because of the cooperation and the enthusiastic support on the part of many of the Hungarian authorities and population when their Jewish fellow citizens were robbed of their rights and expelled. After the deportations to Auschwitz were stopped in July 1944, there were systematic pogroms against the remaining Jewish population and death marches to Austria under the national socialist Arrow-Cross government.
Of the 85,000 Jews who were sent on these death marches, at least 25,000 perished along the way by shooting, hunger, exhaustion, or disease. In all, less than one-third of those who resided within Hungary in March 1944 survived the Holocaust.
For more information: March of Remembrance in the USA
AUSTRIA - April 6th, 2014
This act of repentance happened at the bottom of the Mauthausen quarry. Wolfe comes from an Austrian family that is still pro-Nazi today. He was in the Austrian army and tells of his experiences in this very place.
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