RAVENING WOLVES

 I was watching a documentary on Auschwitz today. It was about how the Allies learned about what was going on there in 1944 and the moral dilemma they faced trying to decide whether or not to bomb the camp and the rail lines leading into the camp. Some of the Jewish survivors were interviewed and they all said that they had no idea that what was about to happen to them when they arrived at the camp. Old men, women and children were told to walk to the left and the Jewish survivors were told to go to the right. This was the selection process. They said that they didn't realize that this was the last time that they would ever see their loved ones alive. One woman said that she thought her family had been gone to live in another section of the camp. Another woman thought that the crematoria was a bakery because of the smoke stacks. Not until later did they discover the horrible truth about the fate of their loved ones. The Jews were hated and had been mistreated since the Middle Ages so they simply adjusted to their environment. They had been relegated to live in Jewish ghettos and were only allowed to take jobs that the gentiles did not want. Yet, even they were not able to accept the fact, until it was too late, that the Nazi's actually wanted to exterminate them. They were like sheep led to the slaughter. 

Sheep are mentioned in the Bible over 500 times. Jesus is portrayed as both the unblemished lamb sacrificed for our sins and he is also portrayed as the good shepherd who sacrificed his life for his sheep.  In 1 Peter 18-19 says "You were ransomed...not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb"  "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. In a secular sense the last thing I want to be classified as is a sheep. Unfortunately many if not most human beings fall into that category. Blindly following flawed and evil people or a false ideology to destruction. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15. In a spiritual sense I want to be a sheep that follows Jesus the good shepherd wherever he might lead me. He will never lead me astray. If I stay focused on him I can never go wrong. John 10: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 

Jesus will conduct his own selection one day. He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left. Matthew 25:3. Some of those goats will be the Nazi's who sent so many people to their deaths as well as the Hitler's, Stalin's, Mao's, Pol P.ot's, Castro's, Joe Biden's, serial killers and those who have rejected Christ. God will protect his people from evil by destroying it. Revelation 20:10 states: “The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” Revelation 20:10" Affliction shall not rise up the second time." Nahum 1:9.