The Bible Believers Sunday Service
Pastor Geoffrey Grider | NTEB Founder, Author & Editor-in-Chief
On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met in Wannsee for the “final solution of the Jewish question”. Emigrating the Jews was a slow and inefficient process, and they needed something that would do the job faster. What follows is a transcript from that event.
“SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Security Police and the SD, opened the meeting with the announcement that the Reich Marshal had put him in charge of preparations for the final solution of the Jewish question. He noted that this conference had been convened to clarify fundamental questions. In the course of the practical implementation of the final solution, Europe will be combed through from West to East for Jews.
Priority will have to be given to the territory of the Reich, including the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, if only because of the housing issue and other socio-political needs. The evacuated Jews will first be taken, group by group, to so-called transit ghettos, from where they will be transported onwards to the East and the concentration camps. In large labour columns, separated by sex, the Jews capable of working will be dispatched to these regions to build roads. In the process, a large portion will undoubtedly drop out through natural reduction.”
This was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference: not to decide whether Europe’s Jews would be destroyed, but to ensure that the destruction proceeded without friction. Authority from Göring was cited. Ministries were aligned. Railways, police, and civil administrations were synchronized. The protocol calmly listed some eleven million Jews, country by country, marked for elimination. Genocide was no longer a campaign of violence on the margins of war; it was now a centrally coordinated state policy.
The moral language would come later—and it would be even more revealing. In October 1943, Heinrich Himmler addressed SS officers at Posen and spoke openly of what had been done. The extermination of the Jews, he said, was “a page of glory in our history that has never been written and shall never be written.” He praised his men for carrying out mass murder while remaining, in his words, “decent.” To kill women and children and still consider oneself honorable—that, Himmler insisted, required discipline, endurance, and loyalty. It was a “difficult,” even “thankless,” task.
“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.” Jeremiah 16:16 KJV
“And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:14 KJV
I Stand With The Jews
“As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” Romans 11:28–29 KJV
Central Truth: The Jewish people are presently in spiritual blindness and unbelief, but God has not abandoned His covenant promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. The Christian is called to reject antisemitism, refuse to boast against Israel, preach the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Jew, and believe the promises concerning Israel’s future national redemption.
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