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The Perished of the Holocaust

What an incredibly hideous spectacle unfolded before the world as humans, turned vicious, ravenous brute beasts, actively and passively, directly and indirectly, willingly and unwillingly, performed their unspeakable horrors on the Jewish people. We have seen what happened in this dimension: Out of the ashes of the departed, a nation was reborn on the earth of those left behind. But what happened to the Jews taken away in the Holocaust? Where did they go? What was their lot beyond the gas chambers, ovens, and graves?

As I took a walk in the afternoon of March 17, 2011 to get some sun, air, and exercise, a thought suddenly came to me that I have to say was revelation from God. I was amazed at it, and thrilled, never having even considered the matter before. Perhaps what came to me was introduced or triggered by a book Marilyn and I had just begun reading, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, a book I would recommend.

Here’s what came to me: Through the portal of the Holocaust, all those Jews who perished as a race or religion, and not because of wrongdoing, immediately entered the sheer and glorious bliss of paradise! As evil as it was and as awful as it looked on this side, it was and is so good and glorious on the other. Those who perished were finally the fortunate ones indeed. Take heart, remnant of the Jewish nation – your loved ones are blessed indeed.

The Jews as a people had atoned, or more accurately, had been atoned, for their sin by their great and final leg of a two-millennia-long journey of great injustice and suffering at the hands of the Gentiles. They have paid the price Moses prophesied they would for their sins. This has not been by any virtue of their own, but by the sovereign will and work of their God, the God of Israel, the Creator of the whole earth, Yeshua HaMashiach, the One they crucified and rejected nearly 2,000 years ago and since.

Here is a vivid description from the Torah of the recent history of the Jews, which is now coming to an end in this generation:

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 MKJV
(16) You shall be cursed in the city, and cursed in the field.
(17) Your basket and your store shall be cursed.
(19) You shall be cursed when you come in, and cursed when you go out.
(21) The LORD shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you from off the land where you go to possess it.
(23) And your heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you iron.
(24) The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.
(28) The LORD shall strike you with madness and blindness, and astonishment of heart.
(34) and you shall be mad because of that which you shall see with the sight of your eyes.
(37) And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
(38) You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in, for the locust shall eat it.
(39) You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but shall neither drink the wine nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.
(41) You shall father sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity.
(42) All your trees and the fruit of your land the locust shall possess.
(43) The stranger within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall come down very low.
(45) And all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
(46) And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
(47) Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things;
(48) therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. And He shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
(50) a nation fierce of face who shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.
(53) And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you.
(58) If you will not observe to do all the words of this Law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful Name, THE LORD YOUR GOD,
(59) then the LORD will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your seed great and persistent plagues; with evil and long-lasting sicknesses.
(61) Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this Law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
(62) And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
(63) And it shall be, as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing. And you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.
(65) And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.

So has it been, even as the Lord spoke by Moses. But now a new day has been dawning since the Holocaust, a day best described in the first portion of this chapter in Deuteronomy (which is not recorded here – see Deuteronomy 28:1-14). This is in spite of the great threatenings the world over towards the Jews from Satan and his murderous subjects. And as those Jews have entered blessed paradise from the horrors of the Holocaust, so the Jews on earth will experience blessedness they have never known, not even in the days of Moses, Joshua, David, or Solomon.


There will finally be righteousness, victory, justice, peace, and joy in their hearts and minds, and in all their homes, and they will know that the Lord their God has redeemed them from the sword, from darkness, fear, the power of the evil one, and from themselves. With them, the entire world will be redeemed and blessed:

“For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is the reception except life from the dead?” (Romans 11:15 MKJV)

Victor Hafichuk

– March 25, 2011