Category 5

 

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If a prophet had asked…

Oh, Lord!  How much longer?  How much longer must we endure these horrors at the hands of The Nazis?  Your people are suffering atrocities at Auschwitz untold in ages past!

These Nazis pluck babies from their mothers; these infants are tossed up in the air and fired upon as if they were target practice!  Their blood splatters over Your people, the prisoners!

Last night, my mother lay down beside me, but she suffered from a fever, a sickness brought on by malnutrition.  They refused to treat her; they were unwilling to feed her.

Last night, she was alive!  While I was sleeping she passed away, and the rats ate her body while it was still warm!  There is nothing left of my mother but a bloody skeleton!

My father died at Dachau.  For The Nazis came for him in the middle of the night, stripped his clothes in the dead of winter, and bound his hands and feet to the ground!

And I listened as every hour on the hour a Nazi would throw cold water over my father in the middle of that long winter night! My father died screaming, praying for deliverance!

He passed away as a guinea pig because of those Nazis!  My father died of hypothermia just so they could see the best way to warm up their pilots who eject over the ocean!

A man of medicine ordered this, but even their doctors are killers!  How long, O Lord, must we endure this atrocity?  How soon until we are delivered from the gas chambers?

Shall Your people simply march to their deaths?  Will You not, O Lord, remember the promise You made to our ancestors, the covenant You established with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?

For if we are Your people, then surely this abomination shall not continue!  I may stand in the line to the gas chamber, but still I will await deliverance from The God of My Fathers!

…then would The Almighty have answered?

Behold!  For I have heard your suffering, and as surely as I live, this abomination shall not continue; this atrocity shall end!  Stop walking!  Stand in your faith that I AM faithful!

Listen to me very carefully; do not lose sight of My words.  For the answers you seek can be found in the pages of long ago, in The Books written in days of old.

Those who say I have been silent throughout the ages, do not know Me.  They have forsaken My commands to fill their own desires; because things did not go their way,

They have turned away from their faith, but the strength of My people shall stand as a testimony against their weakness.  There is no love between neighbors.

For the peoples of this world have a knowledge they were never meant to have–the knowledge of good and evil–therefore, they will never master it.  Instead, it has mastered them.

Children are violated, mothers are scorned, the rich exploit the poor, governments are corrupt, and rape and murder are everywhere.  But love does no harm,

And perfect love drives out fear.  This I have told you ages ago, but you did not listen.  Therefore, I shall send a reckoning so great it will purge the hypocrisy from the people’s hearts.

Does the lion with a full stomach hunt the lamb?  Does a woman give birth without pain?  Does a plant grow from a living seed?  No, for the seed must die that the plant may live.

How shall a man ever know courage without facing tragedy?  How can a woman know sacrifice without her children’s needs?  And how shall the peoples of the earth ever know

Just how much they need Me unless I let them taste their own degradation?  For the lion with the full stomach ignores the lamb until hunger aches and drives it to hunt again.

So shall it be with the people I have created, those who have turned their back on Me from the beginning.  For since so many have chosen to ignore Me,

Then I will show them what happens when they ignore My command to love their neighbors; and from that reckoning there shall come an awakening–as it was in days of old.

For I am going to do something you will not believe even when you see it with your own eyes:  I am raising up The Soviets to capture your captors, and The Americans to liberate My people.

The wounded bear is on the prowl, and it shall devour your enemies.  Its strength cannot be counted, its muscles are beyond measure, and its teeth shall chew on your captors–

For the most dangerous animal is a bleeding mother protecting her cubs.  And after the hammer pounds the swastika, the sickle shall shall cut it down once and for all.

Gaze upon The Soviets and see their cruelty, for if they kill their own soldiers who retreat in battle then they shall surely show no mercy to those who have shown you no mercy.

Your enemies will live in shame for an entire generation, that once proud nation shall know humility while held in the fangs of the bear, crushed under the sharpest claws.

And while the bear shall rule your captors from the east, the eagle shall soar in the west.  A nation united shall also divide your enemies, for I am raising up The Americans.

Even now, they stand in breadlines awaiting their ration of food; their lives are miserable because a great depression has swept over their lands, and their ground is but a dustbowl.

But as surely as I made a promise to your ancestor, Abraham, I will raise up The Americans from the throes of this great depression, and they shall release you from your captors.

Today the skies billow with smoke as My enemies attempt to extinguish My people, but tomorrow The Americans will attack in fire, for I shall rouse a sleeping giant;

And you shall see the dogfights in the skies and hear the thunder of their weapons.  For the factories that make cosmetic casings today shall turn out arrows of lightning tomorrow;

Just one of their weapons will strike down many, but they shall beat their swords into plowshares, for that which fuels their explosives today shall fertilize their crops tomorrow.

And look!  Far to the east!  See The Empire of The Sun rising in the peaceful sea, but My Hand is against them, My Arm stretched out before them.

For their loyalty is voracious; they will not stop unless I turn them back.  And turn them back I shall; for even now, their kamakazies are proud to mark their deaths.

See their soldiers as they march in Myanmar, their well-trained warriors who put their trust in their own weapons shall fall before Me on the island of Ramree.

As they have feasted on their enemies, so shall the saltwater crocodiles feast upon them; for 10,000 of their troops will march through the dark swamps, but only 20 will see daylight.

Darkness is falling upon The Empire of The Sun, and they shall see such calamity upon their lands as was never seen before and shall never be seen in times to come.

For when the smallest particle is split, the greatest destruction comes; a sheet of sun shall conquer The Empire of The Sun, a devastation so great it shall be seen from the heavens.

So terrible will be this fire from the sky and this fallout from the heavens that in times to come even the American victors will speak of it as an unprecedented evil.

But after these things have taken place, after I have raised you up, you must teach your children to remember the atrocities you have endured that this shall happen Never Again!

And if a prophet had also asked…

O Lord, how can The Americans possibly liberate Your people?  That nation has been plagued by prejudice and has reeked of racism since its conception!

How can we be delivered by the arms of America when their own people cannot sit at a lunch counter and eat?  For they have passed laws that are detestable in Your sight!

Their people delight in lynchings and rejoice in killings!  They speak of freedom and sing of liberty, but their own people are segregated and degraded daily!

Since The Empire of The Sun has attacked them, their own citizens have been sent to camps, prisoners in their own nation–even though they have foresworn their native lands.

And if The Americans are that brutal toward their own people, how can we possibly believe that they shall liberate us from The Nazis?  Shall we live like the sons of slaves?

O Lord, can You not see fires blazing America?  Shall Your people live in fear from the intimidation of the white men in white sheets?  The killers who dress up in cone-heads?

Like the snake in The Garden, those religious leaders have twisted Your words to serve their own evil purposes; they mock those living in poverty, and murder men

And women, while those made in Your Image are forced to live in segregation and disgrace!  Shall we see the light of day from the atrocities at Auschwitz only to be delivered

Into the hands of men whose evil rivals that of our captors?  For how long, O Lord, shall it be before such men are elected to power in America?  How soon until their hatred

Consumes that nation because of those who spew such venom?  For there are no noble kings in that land, no good shepherds to hunt down the wolves arising in America.

…then would The Almighty have also answered?

Behold!  Do not despair, My people!  For it is I who causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, Me who sends the rains down upon the righteous and the unrighteous.

Remember, too, the day the sun stood still over Gibeon, and the moon did not move over The Valley of Aijalon.  For there has never been a day like it before or since,

When the hailstones fell upon the frightened people who were fleeing on the road from Beth Horon to Azakah, a single nation struck down many, so shall it be again.

And even those who shall reap the spoils of the victory I am granting, will speak of the unspeakable, and will utter words against the power I am giving them, in times to come.

But I am not yet finished with America!  For when that nation was young, I sent My Sojourner of Truth to warn them of the weasel within their lands, the snake striking from the weeds.

But they did not heed My messenger.  I spoke to her, and she spoke for Me, but those with ears could not hear, those with eyes could not see, and the wise could not comprehend.

I commanded her to travel up and down the land, to show these people their sins and to be a sign to them, and though she could not read or write

I chose her, a former slave whose family was sold, to speak against a nation that promised justice but legalized brutal slavery and denied rights to her citizens.

Yet, they delight in telling their children of the ten plagues I sent against Pharaoh and Egypt, but their eyes are closed; they do not realize that with each one I showed

My blatant contempt for brutal slavery.  And though Sojourner Truth was thought to be a fool in eyes of the slave-holders, the brutality of America shall soon be seen all around the world.

Have I not chosen the foolish in the eyes of this world to shame the wise of this world?  Is there any nation, any race, any people who shall not answer to Me?

Listen closely!  For I am not yet finished with America!  In times to come–and this shall happen quickly–another woman shall rise by staying in her seat.

A single woman sitting on a bus shall spark a revolution among her people.  I made her feet; they are not tired.  I created her heart, and it is tired–of giving in to segregation.

And from that spark, there shall come a prophet, a man I have chosen to end segregation in America.  In a land without royalty, he shall be called King, and I will grant him The Crown of Life.

Many attempts will be made upon his life, to take him from his people, but he will not pass until he has done what I have appointed him to do, and though a knife will penetrate his chest–

Fractions from his heart–he shall not even sneeze.  Though today his enemies claim victory in their lynchings, tomorrow all children shall sit together at the same schools–in peace.

His voice shall echo through the lands like the thunder roars, his words shall strike like lightning at the hearts of the hypocrites who twist my words like the snake in The Garden.

Like a Category 5 hurricane, his words shall purge a land filled with the degrading segregation of the south, and he shall speak against the poverty of the northern land.

He will fight without raising a fist, and battle for the oppressed while never drawing a weapon.  Though his enemies strike him, he will not strike back, but he shall stand on faith,

And the whole world will know that I am with him.  For he shall have a dream, a great vision of unity among the divided peoples of his country, and righteousness shall flow like

A mighty stream.  For this dream will shatter the barriers of segregation and break the chains of discrimination, and freedom shall ring at last from the land called America.

He shall humble the sole power to emerge from the conflict that now threatens My people, and a risen giant shall know humility like the shepherd David brought down the warrior Goliath.

For this power I am granting The Americans is far, far too great for any one nation to hold.  So after four years, I shall test them for forty years; allies today shall be enemies tomorrow.

For forty years, they shall live in fear of the sheets of sun; their children shall duck under their desks, their parents shall build bomb shelters in their backyards–so great is their fear!

But when these two great powers of the west and of the east overstep their bounds, I shall turn My hand against them.  In the jungles of Vietnam, the soaring eagle

Shall be brought low, and in the deserts of Afghanistan the proud bear shall be humbled.  Though they aim their arrows of lightning and launch their fires from the skies,

The peoples of the jungles and of the deserts shall be victorious against them.  Do I, the Lord, show favoritism?  Has everyone forgotten what the commander of My army told

Joshua before the fall of Jericho?  For when Joshua asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” My messenger said, “Neither.”  Remember, too, that I had brought My people out of Egypt,

From a land where they were slaves, and for forty years I fed them.  Still, My answer was, “Neither.”  Therefore, let it be known that I, the Lord, do not show favoritism.

And let all the nations know:  it is not the weapons that win the war, nor the soldiers who achieve victories. but only I, the Lord, grant victory or defeat–as I decree.

And when these powers do, indeed, overstep their bounds, then they, too, shall fall before Me; for those who live by the sword shall die by the sword at the hands of those who are left;

For whoever sheds the blood of man by man shall his blood be shed, and those that plunder many nations shall themselves be plundered by the peoples who are left.

So shall it be for the great powers of the west and the east, if they should use their power for their own greed instead of helping their neighbors across the seas.

I have heard the suffering of my people, and as surely as I live, this abomination shall not continue; this atrocity shall end!  Stop walking!  Stand in your faith that I AM faithful!

For I will give you back the land I promised to your fathers, the ground I declared would be your mothers.  As it was in days of old, so shall it be again.  For as surely as I live

I will restore My people to the land of their ancestors.  Many shall rise against you, but all of them shall fail, and you will know that I am with you.  In times to come,

For six days you shall battle against your enemies, but on the seventh day, you shall rest; and all the peoples of the earth shall know that I am with you once more.

But look closely at that wall in the east!  Gaze upon the words and be warned!  For it says, “Jews go back to Israel!”  And you shall return, as I decree, but the hatred of My people

Shall continue.  For I tell you the truth, within a generation that same wall will be covered in new words but tell of old hatred.  For it shall say, “Jews get out of Palestine!”

Therefore, be vigilant!  Keep my commands and honor my decress.  For you have spent thousands of years wandering among the nations, you were like a child without a father.

Because you were oppressed by those in the lands you lived, you must not oppress those who live in your lands.  You cried out to me because you were oppressed by your captors;

Therefore, you must not become captors.  For after I have raised you up, you must teach your children to remember the atrocities you have endured that this shall happen Never Again!

Though today you long for death to end your suffering at the hands of The Nazis, tomorrow you shall again feast in the land of your ancestors–as surely as I, The Lord God Almighty, live.

 

 

A Few Notes From The Author…

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-Dr. Sigmund Rascher conducted hypothermia experiments at Dachau.

-Ammonium nitrate is a key ingredient in explosives.  After the war it was used to fertilize crops in The United States.

-Certain graphic details were taken from In The Hell Of Auschwitz by Judith Sternberg Newman.  I actually have an autographed copy and, on the inside cover, she wrote, “Free Again.”

-The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb four years after the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The Berlin Wall, the most distinct symbol of The Cold War, fell 40 years later.

-Was it right for The United States to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  The people of the time certainly thought so, but, for the sake of the future, I hope nobody else ever sees it that way.

-The writing on the “wall in the east” is taken from Amos Oz’s How to Cure a Fanatic.  Oz also makes a very significant distinction between war and aggression when he brings up a very valid point about the unfortunate necessity of war:  ”If everyone but The Nazis had believed in war in 1939 then Hitler would have been lord of the universe by now…War can be the answer, but aggression is the problem.” 

-According to The 2007 Guinness Book of Records, the “Most Fatalities In A Crocodile Attack” took place on February 19th 1945 when “a Japanese Army unit was forced to cross 10 miles of mangrove swamps on the Burmese (now Myanmar) island of Ramree.  The swamps are home to many saltwater crocodiles, which can grow up to 15 feet long.  By the morning, of the 10,000 soldiers that had entered the swamp, only 20 had survived” (page 165).