How did the Holocaust fit into God's plan?

Question

and please don't waste your time saying things like "we can't know" "only God knows" etc.

Answer 1

* The holocaust was Hitler's plan*

Answer 2

God's plan is for each of us to come to the saving grace of Christ Jesus - to have a personal relationship with us.

You are assuming that God has created the entire history of mankind. God gave us free choice. Although God knows everything, He did not cause the Holocaust. He does, however, use even horrific events to cause good.

The Holocaust was the catalyst for the re-establishment of the nation of Israel, a prerequisite for the return of Jesus.

Answer 3

Are you trying to disprove God using the Holocaust, because that's a desperate attempt. God had a purpose for everyone of the people that died. Corrie Ten Boom (a missionary who was captured by the Nazis) and her sister where taken to a concentration camp and a Nazi killed her sister. In later years, the Nazi came to her church and asked her forgiveness, and she showed great faith in God by forgiving him even though she wanted revenge for her sister at first. God can use anyone, and he used a lot of people during the Holocaust. Also, Satan is the prince of this world, and he is the father of all lies, he probably told you that God's to blame for the Holocaust. God is not someone we can question, he knows everything, and blessings and miracles came to many who survived the Holocaust. You are disrespecting those who died by saying that their own God killed them maliciously, God has the power to take life away, but he is not evil, and he has the power to give life as well.

Answer 4

Deuteronomy 28 lists the blessings and cursings that the Jewish people would receive from God if they did (or did not) follow God's laws. It is important to understand that the format of Deuteronomy is that of an ancient marriage document. God repeatedly stated in the OT that He considered the Jews His spiritual wife; as such, they were expected to remain faithful to Him.

Among the curses of Deut. 28 are:

29 And you shall grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.

32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be no strength in your hand. 33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see.

36 “The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all nations where the LORD will drive you.

41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young.

There are more, but the point is that God promised the Jews they would be SEVERELY punished if they broke the covenant relationship with Him. This happened and, after many cycles of blessings and cursings, God announced He had divorced His bride (see Jeremiah 3 and the entire book of Hosea). This meant they no longer had His protection. After the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the Jews were disseminated throughout all the earth. With no spiritual protection, they fell victim to many evil plots inspired by Satan to eradicte them. The Holocaust was one such plan. It was God's will that this happen, as evidenced by Deut. 28's curses. However, He promised that, someday, He would retake His bride, which would enter into a New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34). For Jews who do not believe Jesus is Messiah, this will happen during the Tribulation, during which time each living Jew will either accept the New Covenant brought by Yeshua (Jesus) or die (Eze. 20:33-38). This is God's plan.

Answer 5

It would "seem" that there are several answers to this question.

First, it scattered the Jews around the world to help spread the word of God,.
Second, it proves man's inhumanity to man.
Third, it was against the Bible.
Fourth, it was against the people's will.
And finally, Evil takes different roads. This was the worst we have seen in Our Lifetime. We were appalled by it.

Answer 6

It was a punishment on the Jews of Europe because they had abandoned the covenant of Moses for ZIonism which is Jewish Nationalism; and for secular Socialism as represented by both socialism and communism. As punishment they were punished by a queer mix of the two: National Socialism.

Answer 7

A brief search for "Hitler speeches religion" will lead you to every speech in which Hitler explicitly said that he believed that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, and that Jesus wanted his death to be avenged. Hitler's words, not mine.

Answer 8

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. "I am innocent of this man's blood," he said. "It is your responsibility!" All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"
Matthew 27: 24-25

Jews accepted the responsibility for Christ’s death on themselves and on their children. That is the reason, they are the most persecuted race in the world today.

Answer 9

God made man with his mind to think freely, the guys with the holocaust just show how evil man can be... i think we are supoosed to learn from it and not repeat it... my opinion

Answer 10

Of course. Everything fits into his plan.