God's Will... In Our History, too!

Tonight I was watching a show that was discussing the many assassination attempts upon Hitler’s life. I have long held a suspicion that seems so monstrous that I’ve never shared it in public for fear of being labeled anti-Semitic. (That is anything but the truth.)

I have long suspected that God allowed the holocaust because Zionism and the creation of modern Israel were a direct result of that monstrosity. Likewise the freakish series of cartoonish device failures, interruptions, schedule changes, etc. that foiled well over 30 credible attempts to assassinate Hitler just seems to have God’s fingerprints all over them.

It has always reminded me of the way God held up Pharaoh for the plagues even after Pharaoh wanted to quit. I believe that God loves the Jews. I believe they remain His Chosen People.

The modern history of the Middle East is amazing. There were almost 2,000 years during which the general outlines of the Old Testament world were erased. Beginning with 20th century Iran, the biblical world re-emerged in geographic states that loosely recreate the Old Testament world.

By the 1930s the only piece missing was a Jewish state of Israel. In spite of vicious persecutions of Jews, they remained in dispersion. The call for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine was weak. For example, they considered themselves "Germans who were Jewish" rather than "Jews living in Germany". Most could not even consider the idea of pulling up stakes and leaving home for the Zionist dream of a restored Israel.

Then the Holocaust came and shook these entrenched Jewish populations loose. Even those who survived the war and survived the death camps found they could not return to their homes. For many, Israel was the only choice.

The Holocaust also created limited international support to help the émigrés surmount the tremendous hurdles that were yet to be overcome. I believe the story of the creation of Israel is punctuated by a series of miracles, and much of that story lays on the foundation of the truly unimaginable, monstrously evil Holocaust.

That's a horrifying thought for those who believe God's management of His creation is for our comfort. Reconciling the idea of God using the Holocaust and the idea of God's love for humans requires God's Word... ...because those ideas are contradictory in worldly reasoning.

God has promised to take man's monumental wrongs and advance His Kingdom. (Of course, if man had not created the Holocaust, I still believe God would have created modern Israel.)

What lesser wrongs in our lives do we believe He cannot transform?

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
- Romans 8:28