Congregation Yeshuat Yisrael Franklin/Nashville Tennessee. The End Times. The Holocaust and the Olivet Discourse Matthew 24

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Jewish Eschatology! The Holocaust and the Olivet Discourse

Matthew 24:1 Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Destruction of the Second Temple The Second Temple of Yeshua s day was constructed by Herod was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.

3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?

15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect s sake those days will be shortened.

4 And Jesus answered and said to them: Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, I am the Christ, and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 1. Up until the period of the End Times there are various local wars and conflicts. 2. The Beginning of the End Times will occur after NATION AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM. 3. World War I and World War II Mark the Beginning of Sorrows. 1. Multinational Conflict involved most of the World 2. Implications: Holocaust and the State of Israel

9 Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come. 1. Horrific Time on Earth 2. Characterized by deception 3. All JewishSurvivors will be Saved 4. Jewish Evangelism will result in Gentile Salvations

Exodus 28: 58 If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary plagues great and prolonged plagues and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all peoples 65 And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting place; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. 67 In the morning you shall say, Oh, that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Oh, that it were morning! because of the fear which terrifies your heart, and because of the sight which your eyes see.

Leviticus 26:33 33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. 34 Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths. 35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt in it. 36 And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues. 37 They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues; and you shall have no power to stand before your enemies. 38 You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. 39 And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies lands; also in their fathers iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.

Leviticus 26:40 But! If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, 41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.

Leviticus 26:43 43 The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;for I am the Lord their God. 45 But for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

The Shepherd Savior Zechariah 13:7 7 Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, Against the Man who is My Companion, Says the Lord of hosts. Strike the Shepherd, And the sheep will be scattered; Then I will turn My hand against the little ones. 8 And it shall come to pass in all the land, Says the Lord, That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one-third shall be left in it: 9 I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, This is My people ; And each one will say, The Lord is my God.

Zechariah14 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half of it toward the south.

Yom HaShoah

During the Holocaust 1/3 of the World Jewish Population was Annihilated

The Holocaust (1941-45) Of the 60 million World War II deaths, 11 million people died in German death camps including 3.5 million Russians, and 6 million Jews (2/3rds of all European Jews) The word Holocaust was given to the killing of the 6 million Jews because it was a war of extermination designed to wipe out an entire group of people. Hitler s Final Solution Systematic genocide

Holocaust Chronology Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses. April 11, 1933 - Nazis issue a decree defining a non-aryan as "anyone descended from non-aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."

A System of Death

Holocaust Chronology July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship. July 1933- Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects. Nov 24, 1933 - Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps. Sept 15, 1935 - Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.

Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 Deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans. The Nuremberg Laws had the unexpected result of causing confusion and heated debate over who was a "full Jew." The Nazis settled on defining a "full Jew" as a person with three Jewish grandparents. Those with less were designated as Mischlinge. After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a dozen supplemental Nazi decrees were issued that eventually outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their rights as human beings.

The white figures represent Aryans; the black figures represent Jews; and the shaded figures represent Mischlinge - Mixed Lineage.

Holocaust Chronology July 23, 1938 - Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer. May 1939 - The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe. Sept 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Oct 1939- Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. March 7, 1941 - German Jews ordered into forced labor. Oct 5, 1942 - Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.

Holocaust Chronology Jan 27, 1945 - Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. April 29, 1945 - U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.

The Holocaust (1941-45) There have been many massacres during the course of world history. And the Nazis murdered many non-jews in concentration camps. What is unique about Hitler s Final Solution of the Jewish Problem, was the Nazi s determination to murder without exception every single Jew who came within grasp, and the fanaticism, ingenuity, and cruelty with which they pursued their goal.

A Jewish man wearing the yellow star walks along a street in Germany.

One of the most famous photos taken during the Holocaust shows Jewish families arrested by Nazis during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, and sent to be gassed at Treblinka extermination camp.

Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 1903-1946

March, 1942 - First Deportations to Belzec and Auschwitz

July, 1942 - Deportations from Amsterdam to Auschwitz

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 19 April - 13 May, 1943

October, 1943 - Execution of 15,000 Jews at Lublin

May, 1942 - First Reported Gassings at Auschwitz

A view of Majdanek, which served as a concentration camp and also as a killing center for Jews.

At Belzec death camp, SS Guards stand in formation outside the kommandant's house.

Nazis sift through the enormous pile of clothing left behind by the victims of a massacre. (1941)

Soviet POWs at forced labor in 1943 exhuming bodies in the ravine at Babi Yar, where the Nazis had murdered over 33,000 Jews in September of 1941.

Survivors in Mauthausen open one of the crematoria ovens for American troops who are inspecting the camp.

A warehouse full of shoes and clothing confiscated from the prisoners and deportees gassed upon their arrival. The Nazis shipped these goods to Germany.

A mass grave in Bergen- Belsen concentration camp.

Young survivors behind a barbed wire fence in Buchenwald.

Great Tribulation Matthew 24:15 15 Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. 18 And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! 20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. 21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect s sake those days will be shortened.

23 Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 See, I have told you beforehand. 26 Therefore if they say to you, Look, He is in the desert! do not go out; or Look, He is in the inner rooms! do not believe it.

27 For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 28 For wherever the carcass is, there the eagles (vultures) will be gathered together. 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Daniel 7:13 13 I was watching in the night visions, And behold, One like the Son of Man, Coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. 14 Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.

Judgment of the Gentile Nations Matthew 25:31 31 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

Judgment of the Gentile Nations 37 Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You? 40 And the King will answer and say to them, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. 41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me. 44 Then they also will answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You? 45 Then He will answer them, saying, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

God Judges the Gentile Nations Joel 3:1 For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land. 3 They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy as payment for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Kaddish

Mourner s Kaddish We pause on this Day of Remembrance to remember our loved ones, from whom we have been separated by death, but to whom we remain close through the binding links of memory.

Mourner s Kaddish We are grateful, O God, for our capacity to remember, for the ability to retain in treasured possession that which we once held dear. We are grateful for the precious things which death cannot take from us the lessons and experiences which our loved ones shared with us and bequeathed to us. Above all, we are grateful for the assurance that there is no forgetting before You, that our loved ones are held in everlasting remembrance.

Mourner s Kaddish May the memories of those whom we lovingly recall: father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, friend inspire us to lead lives remembering. (Pause...) In tribute to our departed, those who mourn now rise to praise Your holy Name.

All: Magnified and sanctified be His great name in the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom soon, in your lifetime and during your days, and during the life of the entire house of Israel, even swiftly and soon; and let us say, Amen. May His great name be blessed forever and to all eternity.

All: Blessed, praised, and glorified, exalted, extolled and honored, magnified and lauded be the name of the Holy One, blessed is He, though He be high above all blessings and songs, praises, and consolations which are uttered in the world, and say, Amen. May He Who makes peace in His high places make peace upon us and upon all Israel, and say, Amen.

Offerings and Announcements So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. --- 2 Corinthians 9:6

Israel Independence Day Yom HaAtzmaut Saturday, May 14 th Service at 11:00 At Yeshuat Yisrael Bring Israel Foods for the Outdoor Luncheon after the Service! We will provide Falafel (Israel s National Snack! Fun and Games for the Children (We will have a waterslide!) Documentary on Israel will be shown.

Israel Independence Day Yom Ha-Atzmaut Saturday, May 14 th Yiddishkite Theater Movie at 4:00 pm Featuring Exodus With Paul Newman About the founding of the State of Israel in 1948

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The Aaronic Benediction Numbers 6:24-26 May the Lord bless you, and keep you; May the Lord make His face to shine upon you, And be gracious unto you; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.