The Sacrificial Lamb: Why God Allowed the Holocaust

by Joey W. Kiser

Overview

For thousands of years, the Jewish people have endured many atrocities. Some may wonder why the Jewish people have been subjected to this treatment instead of those from other races. In The Sacrificial Lamb, author Joey Kiser explains that God has not forsaken Jewish followers, but instead has named them His chosen people.

Using historical biblical examples, Kiser shares his experience and ideas about the history of the Jewish people and his ideas about Islam and the Christian faith. The Sacrificial Lamb shows why the Jewish people were chosen to be sacrificed so the world would not perish—a sacrifice to ward off the Devil’s plan to destroy mankind.

The Sacrificial Lamb illustrates that now is the time to understand—a time to open the minds and hearts of all of mankind so the truth will lead us all to a better place to create a new world full of love and people caring for one another. It makes way for a world ready for kindness, joy, and understanding so we can live in peace for a thousand years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475934632
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
Sales rank:	871,630
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The Sacrificial Lamb

Why God Allowed the Holocaust

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By Joey W. Kiser

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright © 2012 Joey W. Kiser
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4759-3462-5

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Chapter One

The History of the Jewish Race

This chapter should tell a little about the Jewish people. One has to ask, Why have the Jewish people been treated so horribly by the world? Their history is of a humble people, a people who have been treated viciously just because they are Jewish. This group of people has a long history of prevailing. These people who have survived many trials and tribulations have overcome the forces of evil better than any other race of people. Hate, murder, torture, hunger, thirst, and treachery—the list goes on. Also, they have become the perfect scapegoat for all of man's ills. Their pure stature and strong character and inner strength have been recorded throughout history as a struggling wonderment to survival.

When talking about the history of the Jewish people, one must start with Abraham. He is the one who started it all. I could write an entire book on Abraham and his teachings, but I shall write only about the most important things he did and a little about who he was as a man.

Around 4000 BCE Abraham was born. Nobody knows for sure the exact date, or where he was born, but scholars think it was somewhere in present-day southern Turkey or maybe Iraq. He journeyed until he came upon Canaan. This is where he dwelled for a long time. Abraham is the first man who believed that there is one God and one God only. He prayed to God every day and developed one of the most profound personal relationships with God that has ever been recorded.

Abraham was the beginning force that forged three of the most popular religions. He was the great patriarch of the Hebrew Bible. This man who gained favor from God began the Jewish race as we know it. Christians study the teachings of Abraham, who is in the Bible. It is he who brings into focus that there is one God. This spiritual element changes people's view to look away from idols and objects in the sky and develop their own personal relationship with God. Even Muslims look to Abraham as a spiritual leader and the architect of the Koran, the book they use to find their own relationship with God. There are many ways, or many religions, through which to find God, but Abraham is the one who identified God as one being.

Next are Abraham's children Ishmael and Isaac. It is these two sons that have divided the world into Jewish and Arab.

Abraham is old and still without any sons after returning from Egypt. Sarah, his wife, knows how badly her husband wants children and decides to let her maid Hagar be a surrogate mother for him. She gives her maid to Abraham, and the two engage in the act of fornication. It is not told how many times they have each other, but eventually Hagar gets pregnant and gives birth to Ishmael.

While Hagar is pregnant, Sarah grows rebellious toward her. Sarah's jealousy grows like a weed in moist soil. Every day she despises her rival and tempers fly, but she manages to put up with her.

Ishmael is born, and Abraham now has a son. The Bible says he is eighty-six years old. But dates and ages are not necessarily accurate for anyone in this time. Nobody knows exactly what a year is. But it is clear that Abraham is very old.

Thirteen years later, God orders Abraham, who is still called Abram, to circumcise himself, then Ishmael, then every other male. This act becomes the most notable feature of Abraham's life. With this, God demands that all males be circumcised no longer than eight days after birth. It is here that God changes Abram's name to Abraham, which means "father of many nations."

Many years pass after Ishmael is born when Sarah gets pregnant. The many years of jealousy and envy she has toward Hagar conjure up the spiritual juices to make her fertile. She gives birth to Abraham's second son and names him Isaac.

After Isaac is born, she totally rebels against Hagar and Ishmael. She doesn't want Ishmael to inherit what she thinks Isaac should get, so she talks Abraham into getting rid of both of them. Abraham reluctantly agrees and has Hagar and Ishmael go into exile.

It is here that the story gets interesting. The reader must understand something first: just because the Bible or any other religious text says "God said this" or "God said that," it doesn't mean God had anything to do with that verse. The scriptures are written by man, not God. So when a verse says, "This is the will of God" or "God told so and so to do this or that," it doesn't necessarily make it true. God is mentioned all throughout the Bible, but not one word is mentioned about the Devil doing this thing or that thing. Let me tell you something now: the Devil is alive and doing a lot of mischief in these hard, primitive times. I would say the Devil is more involved with the people of the Bible and all other religious texts than God is. He just isn't mentioned that much.

I say this because of what God supposedly told Abraham to do with Isaac.

God said to Abraham, "Take your favorite one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights which I will point out to you."

God never told Abraham this! The Devil told Abraham this! I hope I'm not offending anyone, but God would never ask this of Abraham. The Devil told Abraham this because he wanted Isaac dead. He wanted to exterminate the Jewish people even before they were established.

Something must have happened a long time ago when Lucifer was cast out of heaven by the archangel Michael. It may be Michael who had something to do with the creation of the Jewish race. I don't know. All I know is that the Devil has tried all throughout history to exterminate and completely rid the planet of the Jewish people. It is here that he begins working on his wicked ambition for the first time.

The Devil tricks Abraham into taking Isaac to a quiet, desolate place to do his dirty work. The Devil's deception works very well with religious men. That is who the Devil gets to do most of his evil deeds: men who think they are righteous and perfect. The Devil's plans are ruined when God intervenes and stops Abraham from killing his only true son conceived by God's blessing.

Let me explain. When a man marries a woman, God is present and gives his blessing. That really is the main concept of marriage: to let God be the one to join two people as one. The children who come from this union are blessed and recognized by God. Abraham was married to Sarah. Abraham was not married to Hagar. The son Sarah gives Abraham is consecrated through God. The son Hagar gives Abraham is not. Ishmael is a bastard son. This union between Abraham and Hagar is not blessed by God. It is not recognized by God and is not sanctified by God. Bastard children are children born without God's blessing. I know that might upset many who are reading this, but the truth should be recognized and told. I'm not saying bastard children shouldn't be born; all I am saying is that if a man and woman who engage in the sex act bring a child into the world and aren't married beforehand, they have created a human being without God's blessing.

My personal opinion (and since it is my book, I can write anything I want to) is that Sarah made a big mistake by allowing her maid Hagar to sleep with Abram in the first place. If you are married, neither the man nor the woman should allow anyone to come between the union God has joined and blessed.

There has been a lot of hoopla about Abraham sacrificing Isaac for God. I can't believe people can be so naïve. Think about it. Why would God want Abraham, or anyone else for that matter, to kill another human life just so He could get some joy out of it? God is not like that. God is a loving, caring spirit who wants only the best for His creations. God would never ask Abraham to kill Isaac or murder him.

This is the work of the Devil and should be addressed that way. The Devil's only power over God is deception. As long as he can deceive, he can do evil in this world. Abraham was deceived into thinking he was supposed to kill Isaac, but God intervened and stopped it. People need to use their common sense when God is involved. People should ask, "Would God really want me to kill someone just for the hell of it?" The answer is no. God is God. God would never ask anyone to do things like this. Remember, the Devil can masquerade as God and even proclaim he is God so you will do what he wants. Don't get caught up with religion so much that you lose sight of who God is and what God would want. Always be on the lookout for the Devil and his deceiving ways.

On the other hand, God may have had another plan. To get in the mind of God, one must study who God is and what He would do based on past experiences. He may have wanted to start a new righteous breed of man, a race of people conceived through His divine blessing. Now that Sarah has given Abraham a son, God may have wanted to sacrifice Ishmael instead of Isaac, since Ishmael was a bastard son and not a glorified son through the blessings of God. God may have wanted Ishmael killed so the race of Abraham would be pure and right.

At one time, maybe, God wanted Abraham to sacrifice Ishmael instead of Isaac. When He realized later that this was a mistake, He told Abraham not to do this act. I think the Devil had something to do with this scene. The Devil wanted Isaac dead, not Ishmael. Then the kin of Abraham would not live and would bring into being the race of people who will one day destroy Satan's plans to rule the world. I think the Devil manipulated what God said and deceived Abraham so that he would do the opposite.

Now getting back to Isaac. The Devil fails in his goal of killing him. Isaac goes on to procreate, ensuring the lineage of the Jewish people. With his wife, Rebekah, he has twin sons, Esau and Jacob.

Before Isaac dies, he prepares to give his blessing to his firstborn, Esau, to receive his inheritance.

Back in biblical times the firstborn sure got a lot of attention. In this case Esau and Jacob are born as twins. They both should be looked on as firstborn. They were born the same day, but since Esau came out first, he is looked at as the firstborn. This should not make any difference, but boy, does it ever.

Rebekah's favorite son is Jacob. For some reason she loves Jacob a lot more than Esau. She tricks Jacob into robbing Esau of his birthright.

The Devil once again is up to no good. He seems to have a way of warping people's thoughts and persuading them to do his mischief.

When Isaac gives his blessing to Jacob, he thinks he is giving it to Esau. Isaac is old and doesn't see very well. When the blessing is over and Esau finds out about the deception, he is mad as hell. He goes after Jacob with fire and vengeance in his eyes and murder in his heart.

Rebekah realizes she has made a terrible mistake, a mistake that might cost Jacob his life. She tells Jacob to leave town before Esau finds and kills him. So there goes his inheritance, all of it.

Jacob takes off and leaves for twenty years. While he is gone, he comes across a small tribe. There he meets a young girl, Rachel, and falls in love with her. He wants to marry her, but her father, Laban, doesn't agree to it. He has another daughter, Leah, who is older. It is customary for the older daughter to marry first. Laban likes Jacob and wants him to stay and work for him, so he devises a plan to keep him around awhile. He tells Jacob he can marry Rachel if he will work for him for seven years. Jacob must love Rachel greatly, because he agrees to this contract.

Seems like a long time to me, but when a man is young and in love, nothing will keep him from the woman he desires.

After seven years, Jacob gets to marry his longtime love—or at least he thinks he does. Laban gets Jacob drunk, and Leah, with veils over her face concealing who she really is, allows Jacob, under the cover of darkness, to engage in the sex act. When light comes and Jacob wakes up from his slumber, he looks over to the woman beside him. He realizes he has been tricked. It is Leah, not Rachel, with whom he has engaged in sex.

Mad as hell, Jacob runs straight to Laban and they have a talk. After their little talk, Laban convinces Jacob that now that he has taken away Leah's virginity, he must remain married to her. He tells Jacob that their custom is for the oldest daughter to marry first. He doesn't want to lose Jacob. Jacob has worked hard for him, and Laban doesn't want him to up and leave. He sees how angry Jacob is, so he allows him to marry Rachel. But he gets Jacob to work for him another seven years.

Most men would have just left and forgotten about the whole mess. But Jacob, still in love with Rachel, agrees to Laban's offer and works for his father-in-law for seven more years.

There is one thing I must say about Jacob: he may not be the smartest man in the world, but he sure is determined to get what he wants. To labor fourteen years just to get the woman he loves shows he is a man who possesses a strong conviction and a dedication to a profound struggle for love.

After twenty years he decides to go back and make peace with his brother, Esau. He does, and they reconcile their differences and live in peace with each other.

My summary of Jacob and Esau is this: To avoid the kind of trials and tribulations these two men encountered, you must not be greedy. Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. To want something so badly that you must lie and deceive is only going to hurt you in the long run. If Jacob had not tricked his father into giving him his brother's inheritance, he would never have had to leave his family. By doing so he got nothing. The fact that he had to toil many years to get the hand of his love was a result of the trickery of his father-in-law. Jacob in turn experienced a backlash because of his own trickery. He would have received some of Isaac's estate, but because of greed and the deceptive advice of his mother, Rebekah, he got nothing but anguish. And Rebekah, who loved Jacob so much, was left without her son. When Jacob had to leave her house, Rebekah also suffered heartbreak. The most important part of her life was taken away from her, and was taken away because of her actions and sinful ways.

A mother should love all her sons the same. Try hard not to show favorites, because when you do, you might get caught up in a web of distractions and deceit. In the long run, the one you showed more love may leave and be gone like the wind, never to return. Then you will be left alone, living with the misery of yearning for that love you once had.

Sin is a self-inflicted, shameful act that will grow to make your life miserable. God doesn't want us to sin because of what that sin might do to us in the long run. God doesn't want any of us to suffer more than we have to unless He has a reason for it. He is a God of love. He wants only the best for us. But when greed or lust or envy or pride or gluttony enters our hearts, the Devil begins to alter our thoughts to trick us into doing something that will in the long run make us miserable or destroy our lives. That is why we must admit our sins early, so we don't continue with more lies and deceit that will eventually lead to our demise.

When Jacob tricked his father, Isaac, into giving him his blessing, or inheritance, he should have asked Esau for his forgiveness and made it right with him. He would have had to put his pride on a shelf and allow for his punishment, whatever it may have been. At least he would not have had to run away from the fear of Esau killing him. If you choose to sin, make sure you are ready to ask for forgiveness. If you aren't, be ready to suffer the consequences, because there will be some.

Leah gives Jacob four sons, but Rachel gives him none. So Rachel does like Sara did for Abraham: she gives him her maid to have more children.

They did a lot of that in biblical times.

As time goes on, it is said that Jacob has two wives, Leah and Rachel, and two concubines. Jacob gets ten children from Leah and his concubines, but none from Rachel. Then finally Rachel gets pregnant and has a son. His name is Joseph.

Joseph grows up to be an outcast among his older brothers. They dislike him with a passion—I guess since he was the firstborn son of Rachel, the only woman Jacob truly loves, and because he is Jacob's favorite. Favoritism sure did cause a lot of problems back then.

Rachel later has another son. His name is Benjamin.

Jacob, now called Israel, favors Joseph more than all his other sons. He makes him a coat of many colors. He gives this to Joseph as a special token of his love. When the other brothers witness this, their jealousy grows viciously in their hearts. They talk among themselves, and the hate that was started grows and grows until it is at fever pitch. This act of love from Israel (Jacob) toward his favorite son evolves into a storm of aversion and envy from the rest of his family.

The brothers plot at first to kill Joseph, but Reuben, the oldest, will not tolerate it. He is the one who prevents the others from murdering Joseph. He still dislikes Joseph as much as the others do; he just won't tolerate any bloodshed. But Reuben has a plan just as mean.

(Continues...)

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Table of Contents

Contents

Preface....................vii
Chapter 1: The History of the Jewish Race....................1
Chapter 2: Why the World Has Hated the Jewish People So Much....................33
Chapter 3: Lucifer's Two Arms of Power....................43
Chapter 4: The Coming of the Antichrist (The Prince of Evil)....................53
Chapter 5: The Creation of the King of Evil....................87
Chapter 6: The Primary Islamic/Jewish Conflict....................97
Chapter 7: The Jewish Faith, the Islamic Faith, and the Christian Faith....................98
Chapter 8: Why Does God Allow Bad Things to Happen?....................121
Chapter 9: The World As Scorched Earth....................133
Epilogue....................159