Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke last Wednesday night at Yad Vashen to start the Holocaust Remembrance Day that would take place on the next day. All of our message this week is taken directly from his "Kickoff" speech.
Netanyahu connected lessons learned from the Holocaust with Israel today. Iran, he said, is the twenty-first century version of Hitler's Germany and Radical Islam is its version of Nazi ideology. He drew direct parallels between world attempts to appease Hitler in the 1930's and the attempts to appease Iran today. He raised the question, "Has the world learned a lesson about the futility of appeasing a ruthless regime with global ambitions? I wish I could tell you the answer is yes. Just as the Nazis aspired to crush civilization and establish a 'master race' while annihilating the Jewish people, so today does Iran."
The Israeli Prime Minister went on to point out, "All Iran is doing is in broad daylight in front of cameras, yet the blindness of world leaders and the worldly media is immense." He quoted from Isaiah, "For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples." World powers ignore those in Iran that shout, death to America; death to Israel. Worldly leaders also say nothing about wholesale executions and the arming of terrorists by Iran.
Netanyahu did attempt to bring in some hope pointing out Israel's developing alliances with Saudia Arabia and Egypt but added, "If we are compelled to stand alone, we will not be afraid. We will keep our resolve to defend ourselves. The nation of Israel that has risen from the Holocaust is ready for any challenge."
We also who put our hope in our Lord God can be encouraged by Chapter 2 of Isaiah which describes "The Day Of The Lord" that appears to be approaching rapidly. "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of The Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, come, and let us go up to the mountain of our Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of The Lord from Jerusalem. O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of The Lord." Isaiah 2:2,3,5.
May The Lord Bless You And Keep You This Day And Each Day,
Frank
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