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He Saved 669 Children During The Holocaust… And He Doesn’t Know They’re Sitting Next To Him. Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939. After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. This is a clip of a video where Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people whom he saved 50 years before.

I'm quite skeptical of any theory that holds a physical Jewish nation above the rest of the world in the years running up to Christ's return. Most of these theories have copious amounts of misapplication of Scriptures contained within. These are theories steeped in a deep misunderstandings of what it means to be "chosen of God", as well as the thrust of God's plan for the salvation of mankind. I view them this way Genesis 3:15 - the original Promise of a Redeemer was made to all of the human race in the persons of Adam and Eve - long before there was ever a Jew. It comes to all human beings today, right alongside that legacy of sin we inherited from Adam. Genesis 12:3 - God declares to Abram (later to be Abraham) that in him ALL the families of the earth will be blessed - centuries before the Jews. This is God's declaring that Genesis 3:15 would come through a descendant of Abram/Abraham. At the time of 12:3, it didn't HAVE to be the Jews - all of Abram's children were yet future, and the Son of the Promise (Isaac) was not yet pronounced (this would not be until Genesis 15) Yet the earthly Jewish nation - set up with the Sanctuary to teach the pre-Cross Gospel of God's grace and forgiveness of sins through the coming Redeemer, was established at the very crossroads of the world for the express purpose of exporting this Gospel to the rest of the world. Instead, they failed miserably - not once, but twice. The Jewish nation never learned that being chosen meant to serve the rest of the world by keeping the Gospel ever before it. They rather wanted to be exalted kings in the earth, to be served by the lesser nations they regarded as outside the Promise of God. They wanted the kingship without having to go through the sacrifice required in God's kingdom to get there (cf, Christ's third temptation in Matthew 4). When in Romans 2:25-29 Paul laid out who God really considers Israel to be, this was not a new teaching. God designed Israel so that as the pre-Cross Gospel progressed in its work, non-natives would be assimilated into the nation of Israel - all the way up to tribes and nations. Paul then states later that now physical Jews have to be grafted into the True Vine, just like the Gentiles have to be; the post-Cross places Gentile and Jew on the same standing as far as needing to be grafted into the Vine. There is but One King of Israel now, and He is still serving before Father in the heavenly sanctuary as our High Priest right now. He awaits patiently to be coronated before all the redeemed. He regards His capital to be New Jerusalem - currently in heaven, not on earth. I'm certain that there exists a role for the Jews to play in the last events - it is, IMHO, simply not going to be as a regathered nation championing Judaism. I am convinced they do have a role, else God would never have preserved them through the past ~2000 years. Humanly speaking, the Jews should have been assimilated into the rest of the world centuries ago, just as every people/nation is when dispossessed of their homeland with no hope of being re-established (Rome's dealing with the earthly Jews from AD 150 and beyond). I do believe the next re-gathering of Israel will be to New Jerusalem, from "all corners of the world". Every single member of the Redeemed Host absolutely must enter through one of 12 gates, each bearing the name of a Jewish tribe. "Israel" is to encompass all who have faith in God's promise in Genesis 3:15 (and every subsequent unfolding of that promise through the remainder of Scripture), pre- and post-Cross believers alike, just as the physical nation of Israel was supposed to have assimilated all people of true faith into it. The imperfect type failed; the perfect anti-type succeeds. Blessings,

Acts 15:10 [Peter speaking] “Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Galatians 5:1 [Paul] “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Like a marriage without love, so the law without the Spirit becomes a “yoke of bondage”. Without the Spirit of Christ within, no human being can keep the Law of God perfectly. It is like pushing a huge boulder uphill. When you get tired, it will roll right back over you and crush you, or crush someone who is behind you climbing that hill - which is exactly what the Law of the Pharisees did to the Jews. The Law of the Pharisees was essentially Law WITHOUT the Spirit. Romans 9:31-32 “But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.” The “stumbling stone” was FAITH, or lack of it. Acts 7:51 “You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.” Hebrews 3:19 [speaking of those who died in the wilderness] “So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” Romans 11:20 “Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.” FAITH results in OBEDIENCE. So why are we (I include myself) not perfect? Why are we still sinning? Is something wrong with our faith? I struggled with this for many years. It seemed that God was mocking me. Then a friend of mine told me to "Read the context Rachel". I looked up the new covenant promises in Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Ezekiel 36:24-27 "For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them." (NKJ) FIRST - We will be returned to our "own land". That's when we come back to the earth from 1000 years in "the Father's House". THEN - The healing process will be completed. Israel redeemed is NOT finally and fully circumcised in heart UNTIL "the 8th day". UNTIL THEN - the blood of Christ will cover our imperfections. The whole doctrine that the church of God must be perfect (NOT SINNING any longer) before Christ can return, crushes the life out of sincere believers. It so discourages them, that they give up. God DOES NOT manipulate human minds. If HE could do that, this whole mess would not have been necessary. He could just have manipulated Adam and Eve, and sin would NOT have appeared. Free will is incompatible with manipulation. We have no conception of the damage we have sustained. It will take 1000+ years to complete the healing. Let's be patient with each other. Respectfully Rachel

I have met graceless and legalistic so called "liberals" and so called conservatives ignoring and negating clear Scripture in favor of their own extra Biblical ideas. The terminology is misused and abused, especially when an effort is made to label and pigeon-hole complex ideas and ideologies. It is basically inarticulate intellectual laziness or an inability to adequately analyze and describe the real issues that are much more complex and intertwined than such imprecise and relativistic labels suggest.

Several recent examples come to mind. There was a question raised whether the kingdom of David ever existed. They have now found a royal ring with the inscription, House of David. Another report indicates that Kathleen Kenyon did not include some very important pottery shards in her dating for the fall of Jericho. These shards date the fall of Jericho in early 1500's to late 1400's BC. Another discovery showed that the believed site for Ai was incorrect. They have now found a tell which is Ai and matches the description found in Joshua. A bone box was found with the name of Caiphus inscribed upon it, the priest at Christ's crucifixion. A large stone was found, I believe it was found in Caesaria Phillipi, with the name of Pilate as procurator. The work at Heshban has been completed, and its final reports are now coming out. Also, they believe they have found the site of Sodom as of the Sodom and Gommorah fame. These are just a few things that have recently been reported. Also there is some discussion that the Pharoah of the exodus was killed in the red sea, and a replacement took upon himself the title and name of the deceased Pharoah. It is believed this was done to keep the Egyptian people from the knowledge of the castastrophe.