True 2/14 Prophet vs. False Prophet Person telling you what god wants Mediate between God and the people Words must be in accord with the true prophet Moses Moses's Laws were mostly in regard the table/bedroom/grave If you say something NOT in accord with the laws of Moses and you manipulate nature = NOT PROPHET If someone says those things and manipulate nature you're supposed to kill him Whole system the presence of the mind if everywhere Real faith is understanding the table/bedroom/grave through the words of God Miracles exist? Fascinated by this and we pray for them Put up against Hitler Moses Hitler vouched a vision might is right, strongest survive, survival of the fittest Snake vs. Alligator ; Nazism is the alligator Alligators fear no one and are the strongest Hitler came up with "living room" Germans needed more space He started invading all the countries for space Heart of Moses charity o Help the Weak We rebuilt Germany $billions o Marshall Plan Bill Clinton says have to be ruthless to enemies Countries are too nice 2 contrary visions in Human Destiny o Ruthless, survival of the fittest o Charitable, help the weak Hitler vs. Moses o Hitler got to enter his "promised land" o He became Chancellor of Germany o Lost, but everyone loses God didn't let Moses into the promised land Moses is guilty and unworthy Guilty of the sins of his people As leader he takes their sins This sin is being weak 12 spies went into the promised land o 10 came back and said they're too big o 2 came back and said lets go in 38 years later they go back and are ready to go in Moses isn't the right leader, he is unable to inspire his people to fight Exodus 13:17 "Pharaoh let the people go not through Philistines because God thought they would flee back to Egypt." Pharaoh let them go God didn't mean Philistines Philistines were renowned as fighters and iron weaponry Philistines were in between Jews and Promise Land It was closer to go through the Philistines Promise land = War, Moses is not a warrior No one knows where God buried Moses Moses will not do if possession of a land is necessary and you're going to have to fight
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You have to prove yourself worthy of the promised land David is the chosen one broke every law of Moses Film Poles watch Jews being transported The men claim to be the ones who gave Jews water at the risk of death Summer = Jews were stifled and hot Winter = Freezing Lanzmaan asked about the ride to the camps Sit on the ground = bullet to the head Men describe women asking for water and throw a pot at a soldier's head opened door and brains and blood were splattered all over 2/21 Hitler on the biblical side Most appropriate candidate to stand up to Hitler = David Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible Hitler sometimes considered himself a prophet in regards to the Jews o 1- He was going to exterminate them o 2- No one would stop him and everyone was in favor of him doing it Thinks he could predict the future Biblical prophets aren't adept at predicting the future 50/50 on their prophecies Insight of the prophets the more things change, the more they stay the same Hope a miraculous intervention by God in the human soul of the prophet A new circumcision of the heart of the prophet Bible prophets thought we were incapable of doing good we needed an intervention with God Hitler always said "The Jewish God will not intervene to save them" Most Jews the key is the bible key to the bible is god Hitler thought the bible was a history of things happening to the Jews and god doing nothing God brought suffering on the Jews in Isaiah Hitler thought there was no point worshipping a God not helping in times of need and also bringing suffering Being a prophet for Judaism is kind of a metaphor to read reality Hitler was aware of the mouth of the prophets a critique of God Prophets in the Hebrew bible are our best source of knowing God Priests don't meet god "Urim" "Thummin" on the breast plates of what priests wore on celebratory occasions When priests are asked for an oracle they can solve their Urim and Thummin. Urim comes from root of something like "no" and Thummin comes from something like "yes" People would go to priests to help decide decisions Kings would go to priests mostly, prophets wouldn't help kings usually No prophets ever tried to promote themselves like politicians today or kings in the Jewish bible who were mostly obsessed with material goods Have to ask a priest a question that can be answered yes or no. The Urim or Tummin might have been dice and it would come up yes or no. In addition to no or yes, there was a no answer couldn't read the dice or god's not talking The way to the biblical god in the Hebrew bible is not the priests but the prophet to whom God speaks to on a regular basis The biblical God communicated to prophets in 3 ways (HIGHEST TO LOWEST) 1. Face to face not actually face to face while the highest form of prophecy is conscious/awake o Moses is the only prophet who did this who reappeared as Elijah and Elisha 2. Vision semiconscious in between time and space 3. Dream unconscious
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But if you think about it, we have an incapacity in us to hear the word of god the dream would be the best not faceto-face The dream is not the worst. The dreamers know God. Isaiah shares with us a transforming vision non-prophet prophet Isaiah 6 Uzziah as a king had policies that ran counter to the prophets He was at war with prophets "behold" technical term for "dear reader you're now in the context of a vision" "My lord" DO NOT associate Lord with YHWH The word lord shows the prophet is going in with little or no understanding of the mysterious God. End of the vision he's using YHWH as if he understands more now "Seraphs" root of a word that means brilliant o Light that can only come from God o Seraphim plural, masc. He sees these blazing creatures Each had 6 wings 2 covered faces to protect themselves or others? 2 covered feet genitalia is another work for feet o Have to cover 2 for flying FILM Jewish Pole said Polish people didn't care (Abraham) Conductor of train had to get drunk to numb the pain HENRIK He needed liquor to numb the sounds, smells Brought more liquor even when provided some Abraham Baba diamonds for water o Saw many trains being back going back with no people Richard Glazer rode passenger train for 2 days o A polish boy made a throat slash sign to old men asking where they were
2/26 1. Isaiah 6 non-prophet to prophet status God central character in the Hebrew bible central in the Judaism faith under attack in this course Date the moment king died a. Kings vs. Prophets = hostile b. King = body of nation state Prophet = interested in the soul c. Without weapons the body is undefended Prophet claims to see what he is transmitting a. Seeing through the prophets eyes b. No minor details c. "I don't think any would want to put our arms down and let God defend the US" "Lord" is not YHWH in the sentence a. When applied to God, it means the speaker of the word does not really understand God b. God is not Human, much different than us and animals c. The author is offering us very preliminary information. He has a long way to go. This entity that he's seeing that he believes is God is "sitting" a. God has a body? Does God have an ass? What part? b. What is "sitting"? c. Does God eat then? Shit? "Skirts of his robe" he's dressed?
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a. "skirt" shoolah feminine only time ever applied in a masculine tense b. Used 6 times in the bible , the other 5 were referring to a woman's dress c. 3/5 used in reference to a prostitute who raises her dress in invitation d. Very peculiar to use on God King of Heaven and Earth e. Biblical God never pictured as a prostitute f. Is the prophet misunderstanding what he's seeing? 6. Seraphs these entities only appear in 3 other texts in the Hebrew bible a. Each has 6 wings b. 2 = hide face c. 2 = hide feet genitalia d. 2 = fly e. Sons of God are seraphs f. Very g. strange Have working male organs that can inseminate women h. Seraphs aware of nakedness, God is clothed so is he aware of he's naked 7. They have voices and God has a voice a. Speak in a language recognizable to the prophet b. "Holy" Kanosh rooting meaning "separate" c. Seraphs go out of their way to say God is separate d. "Holy, Holy, Holy" separate... separate e. Paradox f. "The lord of hosts" refers to Israel's God who is the God of Battle ranks, God who leads us into Battle g. This Lord = YHWH h. Common phrase so doesn't mean prophet understands it yet i. "Presence fills al the earth" word for presence = Caved j. Caved is used in the 5th commandment = honor ancestors k. Comes from root meaning of heavy l. This God is utterly and completely separate from us and he's never more separate than when we go into battle Paradox even though he's separate, his "kavod" is everywhere on earth m. Paradox means God's gravity "kavod" keeps us down n. Metaphor for incapacity to understand God o. Humans = earth God = heaven p. He's present to keep us away from his presence q. For our God, he keeps us away from him r. Seraphs are saying "never forget to not get close to God" 8. Door posts are shaking 9. Seraph's voice so resonant it's shaking the whole place a. There's smoke and fire, seraph comes from root of fire 10. Prophet cried Prophet's reaction foreboding a. "I am just human. I am unclean" b. God takes seriously what we think and do c. Understands what the Seraph's are saying d. God is pure and immortal e. He lives with all unclean people f. His own eyes have seen the Lord of Hosts g. He's too close to God 11. Seraph flew to prophet with a live coal from the altar a. They have coals? Alters? What's up there? b. They got tongs up there? Technology up there? c. Technology is the keyword in the class. Nazis worship this. d. The coal is touched to his lips, once touched to his lips guilt is departed and sin purged away
e. No guilt so he can be in the presence of the Lord 12. Now he hears voice of the LORD not YHWH a. "Who will go for us" God he's a mission and needs a "volunteer" b. Prophet volunteered immediately this shows he's young c. Most prophets only volunteer to die, they hate missions d. The task is to go to the people and make it more difficult to understand God e. "Dull their minds, shut their eyes, close ears" f. God doesn't want them to repent, doesn't want to forgive them. Wants to lower the boom. g. "How long my Lord?" Isaiah h. "Until towns lie waste" God i. God wants to kill 9/10 but the 1/10 will repent and have a holy seed 2/28 3/4 1. 2. 3. September 1930 Hitler's Nazi Party got 107 seats 2nd longest amount in the legislator a. Didn't hide his hate of Jews 2 years later July 1932 Nazi party got 229 seats a. Flexible party, but had a murderous-inflexible hatred of the Jews March 1933 Hitler become Chancellor of Germany a. Seats went down to 215, but president wanted to appoint Hitler still b. Spoke of a greater Germany Impressive speeches c. Won 70% of the vote d. All the time spoke of the Jews April 1933 Hitler declared a 1-day boycott of all Jewish business would tell him everything he needs to know about his plan a. SUCCESS b. Why didn't Jews Leave? Some did but most were Jewish-German and didn't take Hitler seriously, thought it was a political play **** June1933 Hitler enters into an agreement with the Vatican If Hitler allows German churches to continue to send money to Rome, the Catholic Church promises not to interfere with internal Germany policies a. Green light for Hitler to do whatever he wanted to the Jews b. The catholic church protected the Jews of Italy August 1933 word leaks out from the Vatican that the Germans are beginning to send Jews to concentration camps places of horror but not death camps September 1935 Germany comes up with the Nuremburg Laws defined what it means to be a German Citizen a. Designed to protect the blood and honor of Germany b. Jews are prohibited from being German citizens and prohibited from having extramarital relations with nonJewish citizens c. "Jew" anyone with 1 Jewish grandparent d. Nothing in laws suggesting persecution of death e. Jews could not assimilate or convert to Christianity to avoid this trapped by blood August 1936 Berlin Olympic Games America and the Holocaust Crystalnaucht terrorized the Jews "night of broken glass" Nuremburg laws restricted Jew's jobs and lives America's immigration laws hurt Jews chance of getting in The laws were prejudice Peak of anti-Semitism FR Charles Huge anti-Semite 3 million listeners a week
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a. US team consisted of a few Jews and African-Americans b. Hitler left stadium when a Black or Jews competed c. Signs were down, Olympics locked like a turning point so many Jews came back 9. Rev. Martin Neimoeller (Neemeyer) outspoken critic of Nazism and Hitler a. Opposed Hitler's policies against the Jews although he said repeatedly that the Jews while talented, are very dangerous and devious b. Devious = blinded by the glitter of gold c. Dangerous = incapable of loyalty d. Aftermath of war major German meeting of leaders of Christendom talked above responsibility of Christianity and there's a misunderstanding if so many Christians participated in the slaughter 10. *** Oct 1937 British Government shut down Palestine as a heaven for Jews a. The Yisahuv haven in Palestine was desperate for Jews would have taken all Jews from Germany b. Shutdown Jewish Immigration and REALLY made it difficult to get in c. Didn't want to alienate Arab states on eve of a world war where oil is needed Shoah 3/11 3 Stages 1. Informal a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. Citizens would gesture throat cut sign to Jews on trains Jews would look and not understand
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Jews shouldn't be a part of society Decided in 1935 (Nuremburg Laws) Someone always makes money off the Jews Non-Jews shouldn't' date Jews 1% of population but interesting are concentrated Social-exclusion The "stranger" Constitution protects the "stranger" and those who persecute the "stranger" Exodus goes out of its way to remind the Jews that when they are no longer "strangers" (Egypt) to treat new "strangers" us their own j. Nothing like this in Nazism k. In Nazism = destroy the stranger monolithic society 1936 Nazis decide to concentrate Jews in various areas a. 1933 60,000,000 people to Germany b. 550,000 Jews c. 1939 215,000 Jews nothing good was to happen to the Jews d. 1942 - 130,000 Jews living from day-to-day e. 1943-44 10,000 15,000 Jews Hitler committed suicide f. Am + Brits were invading from the west. Russians to the east g. This small remnant left, view that a holy obligation to make sure the story of Jews was continued, and continuous this story outside of Germany h. Germany was dirty and nothing could make it clean i. Why are a certain number of Jews returning to Germany? What's in their minds? j. German Jews that live and raised families in Israel talked of Germany gloriously, like it was a great thing of their past. No other nationality talked of it like this k. After 35, Jews were put into ghettos, then concentration camps l. Both had an appalling lack of sanitation, food, water, and no protection from their enemies
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m. No one came to the Jew's rescue n. Joseph Goebbels said Hitler told him that this would be natural mortality. Put the Jews in the places they couldn't survive. o. Once Jews got to Buchenwald chance of surviving 6 weeks was null p. Christians in camps had a better survival chance Unnatural mortality a. Hitler got millions of Jews in Poland and Russia. 3 stages of this mortality. b. 1) Action groups rounded up and slaughter all Jews after Germans secured an area i. Impractical method c. 2) Gas Vans also too slow d. 3) Death Camps all were in Poland i. Never shut down by surrounding populace, US air forces, or the people running it ii. Only shut down by Russian and US Army or when Jews revolted