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Moriel Australia Margret Godwin AUSTRALIANnews Australian & Rambling Rose Report– December 2009 Greetings Dear Family in the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Again dear family, we tidying up and filing away yet another year. I won’t bore you with the obvious, but where does the time go? It has been a big year here in Australia. The country is still undergoing Royal Commissions of the “Black Saturday Fires.” While some homeowners are deciding whether to rebuild or move, many others are too scared to make momentous decisions (as they see it at this time). And while it is still spring we are already having excessive heat and fires, and many frightened eyes look nervously to the hills for that wisp of smoke to come over the horizon. As if that is not bad enough, we are madly sailing down the road of abortion on demand, homosexuality, legalizing same-sex marriage, and allowing children to be adopted into these unions. The government is giving over all rights to other nationalities while denying the same legal rights to Christian-born Australians. Almost every vestige of Christianity has been removed from our schools and, even more sadly, in supposed mainline church schools. As I have for several months been restricted physically from doing a lot of other things, I have been quietly observing the depraved way of life that we seem to have so readily embraced. I almost fall prostrate at the mercy and patience of our God. We are no longer shocked at the evilness, cruelty and putrid way of life that through the Internet and television can be accessed in what once was the sanctity of our homes. All I know for sure is that I must hang onto the Lord, not through any strength of my own, but through His almighty power. I am weak but He is strong. While I praise Him for the wonderful gifts He has given me I see so very clearly what a temporary thing this “mortal” life is. Please forgive me if I come across as preaching (never, never, never) but in my heart I felt I wanted to share this with you. So my dears, as we embrace 2010 I pray that we all shake the dirt off our hands and feet. That we cleave unto Him—the King of kings and Lord of Lords. More precious than anything or anyone else. The words of the chorus, “Lord you are more precious than silver,” and, “I will sing you a love song,” have been going ‘round and ‘round in my head. As I quietly sing them to myself I feel the most beautiful peace seep through me, and I acknowledge that everything is in His hands. Praise Him. I pray also that you all have a Christ-filled holiday season, and the Lord holds you safely in His magnificent and beautiful hands. Just one more encouragement before I close: don’t forget the widows/widowers, those alone, those in nursing homes. Just take a few moments to perhaps take them for a meal, or go eat with them, make a telephone call or, even more precious, write them a short letter. Just think, if each of us wrote one letter, how much pleasure that would bring. And finally, thank you so very much to all those who have been praying for Jacob, the ministry, and for me personally. May the Lord bless you mightily. My love to all of you; may the Savior whom I adore wrap His loving arms around you, and may you experience a “joy unspeakable” Shalom, Marg ambling G’Day dear family, o s e Well, here I am coming to a close of my tenth year at the computer, having started out in 1999 as “a scribe in training.” As 2009 closes I feel that, were I to be perfectly honest, I have not graduated any further. But in saying that, I am comfortable where I am. As a dear friend of mine used to say, “she loves to sit on the fence!” Probably got lots of splinters in my bottom, eh! My goodness, we have had some wonderful times during this past decade. Yet we have also seen horrific things happening to brothers and sisters around the world in the name of “Christianity.” Most of my personal happiest times have been getting to know more of you when we travel to different venues with Jacob, Dave and Calvin. It is amazing. While I don’t recognize a lot of the faces, as soon as I hear a voice I can generally make out who you are. At the risk of sounding too worldly, I must make a New Year’s resolution for 2010. Now you had best sit down. I am going to clear out my office and completely revamp it, and putting everything in its rightful place. Now you stop that laughing! Truly I am going to do it!! I can hear a chorus from all around Australia saying, “I’ve heard that before,” or, “How many times have I heard that!?” I have to do it anyway for my own survival. I fear one day I will not be able to find my way out and will just fade away and not a living soul will know where I am. Thank the Lord for my faithful companions, Noah and Esther (my ragdoll cats) they have incredible orienteering instincts and can always find a way in to check on me. Now to our Aussie Readers a few reminders: It is time to re-register for the 2010 Quarterly. The 2010 Moriel program will include visits by Jacob (July), Dave Royle (May), and Calvin Smith (tbd). We have huge a “thank you” to pass on to all those who have supported the ministry prayerfully and financially; for the love displayed toward those on the mission fields prayerfully and financially; for all the volunteers who visit those who are on their own, or who are ill or lonely; for all those who have helped at the mail outs and conferences (I could not have managed without them); for the pastors and their wives who have welcomed our speakers. And a “thank you” to Pammie and Vic who travel over each week (staying overnight) to help me here. This couple is wonderfully generous and faithful. New additions to the Moriel “House Mob” are Les and Trish Martin and their little dog Trixie. Les and Trish have taken over as managers at the Belgrave Lodge, and in their spare time they come over to do what they can. Well my dears, our dear Carrie in the USA is awaiting this effort so I had best close for now. I hope you enjoy the bumper Sept/Dec issue; that should keep you going over the holidays. I apologize for the delay but things have been a bit “iffy” here with me. Oh, Oh, I am really going to have to go! My little Esther has just brought in her latest prize, a dear little brown lizard (minus it’s tail). I will have to try to catch it, keep her away from it, and then put her in the “sin bin.” It is not as though she hasn’t had plenty of warnings!!!! Note that the office will close for a month over the Christmas break, but I will be clearing the mail and sending out some of the orders as they come in. God bless you all. I look forward to catching up with you in 2010. Love in Christ, Marg 22 Moriel Quarterly • December 2009
Hebrew Lesson The water of life is the Word from God HEBREW LESSON . . . FAQ: Why Didn’t the Jews Resist? Resist not Evil In the realm of human nature, the most natural response when one is threatened or attacked, or even put in danger, is what scientists refer to as “fight or flight”: either to defend oneself against the danger, or to flee from it. One of the most frequently pondered questions about the Shoah, is why did the Jews not fight back more against the Nazis to prevent their people from Genocide and the gas chambers. It seems only natural, that a people who existed all over Europe, close to 12 million at the beginning of World War II, with 3.5 million in Poland alone, should pick up arms against a tyrant seeking to destroy them and take control of Europe. Some have counted the Jews as “lambs to the slaughter” and expressed wonder at the idea that millions walked what is perceived as blindly to their death. After all some reason, in mass executions, did the Jews in line to be killed not realize that the others were being killed, and were not more of them than even the battalions? The nature of resistance in wartime though is not well understood by many, and the nature of resistance in genocide is even less understood. One thing is clear in considering the choice to resist or not, that morality and wisdom in wartime in general becomes very complex, with threatening consequences. It is this complexity of choice that will be considered here. A Darkening Horizon The choice for the Jewish People and others to resist or not resist the Nazis began as soon as the Nazis started to come to power. In 1923, the Nazis had growing support but they were still a very small minority Party, and would gain only about 3% of the vote. Still, even at this point with the perception of the Nazis as a fringe group and the disdain for brutal tactics and censorships by the ‘brownshirts’, many German Jews were outspoken, but there was only occasional resistance, because neither the Jews nor Domestic Germans felt that the National Socialists would come to hold the monolithic power which would come about in 10 years. Anti-Jewish demonstrations and rhetoric were decried by some and supported by others, not unlike such occurrences today in Europe and the United States. Anti-semitism in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, though was not limited to the Nazis: many old prejudices held strong, and the Jews, who had remained a people through dispersion for centuries, had learned the value of passive co-existence to the extent possible, combined up until this time period with a segregation lasting far beyond the Jewish Enlightenment which gave rise to possibilities of Modern 20th century assimilation of the Jews into Western cultures. The Morality of Resistance vs Non-resistance To discuss the morality of whether to resist or not resist in war time is to move out of the normal range of ethics: in war in general, a person is in constant danger, but so are others; in war quick life and death decisions must often be made without time to consider outcome or moral implications. Jewish resistance was compounded in these choices in which there were not right or wrong decisions but wrong or less wrong decisions. An example of this would be, Jews who had a small cache of arms in the ghettos, who at best could have killed a small group of Nazis out of thousands. Should they resist? If they picked up weapons and fired, the result would most likely be the rapid random killing of themselves and innocent bystanders, or even a razing or bombing of the ghetto. If they did not resist they would most certainly been enslaved, deported, robbed and murdered. Resistance in many cases became more of a statement than a realistic defense. Medical staff in the ghetto or Jewish hospitals faced the same kinds of choices: in one case during the time of deportation, staff at a children’s hospital were asked to ready their patients because the Nazis would arrive shortly. Knowing the Nazi’s penchant for killing the weak and ill, some staff members gave their patients large doses of morphine or other narcotics: they knew the patient would probably die. Resistance and Consequences A premiere example of the dilemma of Jewish Resistance during the Shoah lies in the events surrounding and leading to the ‘Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’. Unlike regular warfare, where assaults are met by resistance with calculated risk, the Ghetto provides a unique look at a classic moral dilemma. Long before the uprising, ZOB knew about the consequences of the deportations. The youth, more willing to rebel initially tried to work within the bounds afforded them – they warned the Judenrat. The youth and the Judenrat however were greatly constrained by moral and political boundaries. If the Judenrat lived up to their conscience, then their defiance of the Nazi liaisons would have brought instant imprisonment and death. For the younger dissidents, though, the dilemma constantly and throughout the war, was that of minor resistance endeavors succeeding, vs the great and real possibility that the action would bring about retribution and death not only to them but to many people. The fear was well-grounded: by the time of the Uprising, there had been constant reprisals and even legislation enacted which made Jewish resistance an extremely difficult potential. NOTES: http://www.shoaheducation.com/faqjewsresist.html © 1997,2003Elizabeth K. Best, PhD; Shoah Education Project (Web) December 2009 • Moriel Quarterly 23
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