Posted on 07/13/2013 6:19:26 AM PDT by NYer
VIENNA — It was 1943 when Vienna’s Nazi overlords gave the order to destroy the city’s oldest Jewish cemetery, demanding it be leveled and the tombstones attesting to centuries of Jewish existence there be destroyed.
Desperate to save their heritage, the city’s shrinking Jewish community decided to act. Defying the possibility of prison, deportation or execution, they buried the gravestones and kept them from Nazi hands.
Some 70 years later, Jewish leaders in the Austrian capital say the long-lost stones have been rediscovered. It is a find they say could transform a small obscure graveyard into one that rivals the significance of Prague’s Jewish cemetery, the oldest known burial ground of its kind.
The cemetery has no name and is hard to find, with the only entrance through a city home for the elderly in Vienna’s 9th district. Weathered but restored gravestones poke through weedy, uncut grass, with faded Hebrew inscriptions.
But beneath the ground, Jewish leaders say, are other tombstones piled layer upon layer.
The cemetery dates back to the 16th century and had about 900 tombstones until 1938, when the Nazis came to power and gave vandals free reign to deface and destroy them.
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Ping!
God, You have a lot of explaining to do. Why did You let satan and the nazis just parade in and murder and destroy all that Your people had built.
He didn't let it happen; we did. God gave us the gift of free will.
It has happened before, it is happening now and if we don't take action, it will happen again.
The OT reading for today is the conversation between Joseph and his brothers about just such a question. Gen 49:29-32; 50:15-26.
Now watch the Eurabians riot and the UN step in.
“God, You have a lot of explaining to do. Why did You let satan and the nazis just parade in and murder and destroy all that Your people had built.”
This is what they could have said in Egypt after Pharaoh threw the babies in the river. (But wait! Moses would be coming; and after that, Sinai; and then later David and Solomon, etc.) The story wasn’t over yet; they just couldn’t see far enough to know how it ended.
““God, You have a lot of explaining to do. Why did You let satan and the nazis just parade in and murder and destroy all that Your people had built.”
I believe that will be the question GOD will ask each of us regarding the millions of aborted babies in this nation.
GOD gave us dominion over the earth and we blew it bigtime. Thank GOD for HIS mercy and love that HE would send HIS SON JESUS to pay the price for our iniquities.
The Almighty Creator has to explain Himself to His creation? Uh....no.
God doesn't deserve the blame. Mankind chose to turn away from the perfect world He made for us, and to allow in evil.
BFL
That’s what I tell my kids. I can see farther than you when they are doing something that I know from wisdom that will end a different way than they expect.
It’s hard, but I have to feel the same way about God and His seeing farther than me.
Ah. This is a wonderful discovery and I hope these treasures get the professional restoration they deserve.
“God, You have a lot of explaining to do. Why did You let satan and the nazis just parade in and murder and destroy all that Your people had built.”
Why did they not have guns,at least crude fire bombs, anything?
Those who do not resist evil are destroyed by the evil they willingly submit to.
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