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WALKING OVER BROKEN GLASS

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(This blog by Paul Scharf brings out what we’re seeing as we are close to the second anniversary of what Israelis experienced October 7, 2023.)

When the Arab terrorist group Hamas entered Israel on October 7, the world was horrified. On that day, these terrorists kidnapped 200, killed 1,400, and wounded more than 4,500 Israelis. Innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered simply because they were Jewish.

The appalling attack brings to memory another terrible act of violence against the Jewish people that took place 85 years ago. On November 9–10, 1938, innocent Jewish Germans endured devastating physical and spiritual darkness much like the evil perpetrated against Israel today.

Kristallnacht was the defining moment regarding the Nazis’ approach to the Jewish people, effectively launching the Holocaust. The Third Reich officially established the full-blown persecution of those they would later distinguish with badges bearing the Star of David. Cultural prospects began to deteriorate immediately for the Jewish people, though so many of them had long known this land as their home.

THE NIGHT OF SUFFERING​

So what exactly was Kristallnacht? The word literally means “night of crystal” but has since taken on the fuller meaning “Night of Broken Glass.”

The pretext for the event was the tragic decision of Herschel Grynszpan (a Polish Jewish teenager) to assassinate Ernst vom Rath (a German official) in Paris on November 7, 1938. Grynszpan’s evil act was a reaction against anti-Jewish policies impacting his own family. It was, of course, also foolish and played directly into the Nazis’ hands, giving them the opening they desired to institute an all-out assault on the Jewish people.

The destruction was massive, as Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were mercilessly destroyed.

The scope of Kristallnacht almost wearies the imagination. Rampant violence erupted throughout Germany, as well as in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and beyond. Disguising it as an organic demonstration, the Hitler Youth and Nazi Storm Troopers elaborately engineered the brutal pogrom. It was a bloodbath.

The destruction was massive, as Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were mercilessly destroyed. Firefighters protected German properties while allowing conflagrations to blaze unhindered in Jewish-owned structures. The sensation of walking over the broken glass must have given them a perverted sense of satisfaction.



The civilized world has vowed for the past 85 years to never forget such tragedies as the Jewish people suffered. Yet, how many today know anything at all about this monumental event?

Could there be another Kristallnacht, even another Holocaust, before the Rapture of the church? We desperately desire to say no, but recent events, most notably the violence Hamas committed against innocent Israelis and pro-Palestinian protesters’ support for these actions, indicate otherwise.

May the Lord help us, by His grace, to carry the same burden for the Jewish people that our forefathers bore—even being willing, as they were, to risk our own comfort and worldly esteem.

 
Paul is right.
Could there be another Kristallnacht, even another Holocaust, before the Rapture of the church? We desperately desire to say no, but recent events, most notably the violence Hamas committed against innocent Israelis and pro-Palestinian protesters’ support for these actions, indicate otherwise.

I think the hatred increases until most of world wide Jews are re gathered in Israel, with the stragglers left much like they were in Hitler's Germany, to face those who want to murder them.

There is no protection anymore (the hate speech laws in Canada haven't worked, the anti semitism is growing in force and numbers) and it isn't just the muslim migrants. It's people like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Rick Wiles, alex Jones

and the QAnon - I know that we don't hear as much from them right now, but they were very active in Trump's first term, and many of the weird posts they came out with were anti Israel, and promoted antisemitic tropes much as Candace and Tucker do now.

Seeds, planted, springing up. An evil harvest.

But God, shepherding His people back into their land using WW2 to bring a lot home, now I've read that over the past few years that French Jews, Canadian Jews and even American Jews are leaving in greater numbers since the uptick in Anti Semitism, and muslim attacks in these countries.

Regathering in Israel has to happen. I think a couple of years back Israel became the single largest number of Jews in the world by country. (France, Canada and the States in order of severity of anti semitism are the 3 biggest) Russian Jews emigrated to Israel en mass after the fall of the USSR- again, God's Hand at work.
 
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