If God opened the sea so that Moses and the jews could escape,why didn't he open the concentration camp gates

Answer 1

God warned Israel that turning from His Word would leave them vulnerable and without protection...

“Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence. Therefore I will bring the worst of the Gentiles, And they will possess their houses; I will cause the pomp of the strong to cease, And their holy places shall be defiled. Destruction comes; They will seek peace, but there shall be none. Disaster will come upon disaster, And rumor will be upon rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet; But the law will perish from the priest, And counsel
from the elders.” - Ezekiel 7:23-26

I know the maturity level of YA participants is pretty shallow. But if you can handle it, "Suspendor of Disbelief'" is right on track. There is more to our physical timeline than what meets the eye.

Answer 2

They had a place to go when they crossed the Red Sea with Moses. Pharaoh and his forces were behind them, chasing them, not all around them.

In the late 1930s ships full of refugee Jews were turned away from many ports - this was before the concentration camps took their greatest tolls. There were even turned away from US ports - sad, but true. Many fewer would have died at Hitler's hand if the rest of the world had been more willing to help before we even entered WWII. Opening the gates took many Allied lives, the dedication of an underground full of risk-takers and those who put others lives ahead of their own - read about the TenBoom sisters sometime. It also took a long, hard war in which many of our fathers and grandfathers lost their lives. God did open the gates, too late for many, just in time for some. During the time of Moses - many Jews died at the hand of Pharaoh, just as many died at the hands of Hitler before they were delivered - we just don't know that whole story.

May God Bless the men and women who fought so valiantly to stop the holocaust.

Answer 3

God put us on this earth to take care of each other. Why didn't the Christian community stop the atrocities. Hitler did not operate in a vacuum. What kind of a culture was it that would allow such a monster to survive for even one week?

There's another genocide taking place right now, today, in Darfur, Sudan. Will God's children stop the atrocities this time around? Probably not. Indifference is the scourge of the earth!

“In the End, we will remember
not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.. Baptist minister
who led the civil-rights movement in the US, 1929-1968

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil
is that good people do nothing.”
British statesman Edmund Burke

“Few are Guilty, but all are responsible.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.
-Pastor Martin Niemöller, 1945

Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow. (Isaiah 1:17)

The message is not so much about putting our absolute trust in God to come through for us or else. It’s about believing in ourselves, and having the courage to look beyond the reality of “what is” or “what has been” to “what can be.” God never promised us a rose garden. He gave us the roadmap to get there and the capacity to plant and cultivate the seeds of a better world.
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Answer 4

In the time of Moses, between the first plague and the last plague, over two years passed. You can see this by the different crops listed as being destroyed. During that time, Jews were being killed, babies slaughtered, people oppressed and abused. God gave the pharaoh repeated chances to free the people, and he would not. So it finally took a miracle to bring them out. It did not happen immediately and cost many lives. But they were freed. We do not know how many times God gave Hitler opportunities to repent. But he never did. Until finally God had to free the Jews using the American GIs. It did not happen immediately and cost many lives. But they were freed.

Answer 5

That is exactly the kind of question that Moses told God that people would say:

Num 14:15 Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
Num 14:16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Congratulations! YOU actually said it!
I would not dare try to answer it. My experiences with Jews have been excellent so far, and I don't want to endanger that one bit.

Answer 6

He was going to make a nation out of these people keeping a promise made to Abraham 400 years earlier.
To do that they had to escape.
After Jesus came this covnant had been established and the truth was set. It was being preached throughout the country.
The prison was opened for Peter but he still died a horrible death. Those who were put in concentration camps knew the truth nothing needed to be proved to them except they remain faithful unto death to receive eternal life.
They were most of them ones who went to heaven to rule with Christ Jesus after their death. They would most of them be dead by now anyway. Perhaps this was a short cut to heaven.

Answer 7

God sometimes saves people from death and sometimes he does not. He did not save Abel from Cain. He saved the Israelites from Egypt by opening the red sea, but then made them almost all die in the desert so that only 2 who left Egypt reached the promised land. He saved Daniel in the lions den but he did not save the Christians that were fed to lions in the Roman circus. Most of the 12 apostles died violent deaths at the hands of their enemies. DOwn through the ages many of God's people have been killed for their faith, God did not prevent that from happening.

So, sometimes God intervenes to save people from danger, and sometimes he lets them die. As believers in God we see a bigger picture. There is more than just this life. We will all die eventually, so whether God saves us or not, that is up to God, who decides when our time is up. We trust that God loves us and has our best interest at heart, so we say like Job, "though he slay me yet will i trust in him". We know that although sometimes it is God's will to let us be killed by our enemies, God is still in control, and he can bring something good out of it. And we know that though we die, we shall live again and shall see God at the last day, so we have that perspective and it gives us hope and faith in the face of death.

Answer 8

I believe He did for some. The Jews rejected Jesus as their leader. Moses was before Jesus, and that was an older covenant.

Answer 9

the sea was willing ...God doesn't force mankind to obey him so He has to find this door open, this man to listen,this way that way until He has a way to fix it. i suggest learning the difference between sins nature with mankind & Gods Word/ Will...you might think diff w/Gods character...

Answer 10

Maybe God was in hibernation during the holocaust. The same may go for the genocide in Darfur, slavery and when the Native Americans were raped for their land.