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Monday, April 27, 2015

Jeremiah [MKJV] 17:7-10 Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, and Jehovah is his trust. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters; it sends out its roots by the river, and it shall not fear when the heat comes, but its foliage shall be green; and he is not worried in the year of drought, nor will it cease from yielding fruit. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

“The only thing we learn from history is we don’t learn from history. Consequently we repeat history.” Mr. Vince Hanley, World History teacher at North Harford High School, Maryland many years ago.

  As a result of energetic evangelism, in the early 4^th century Christianity began to spread in Armenian area. The first state that was called Armenia by neighboring peoples was established in the early 6th century BC. The Kingdom of Armenia became the first state to officially adopt Christianity as a state religion. In later centuries the Armenians developed close social, cultural, military, and religious ties with nearby Crusader States in the hope of protecting themselves from incursion and oppression by nearby Islamic societies. Sometimes it worked, other times not.

  Eventually the Armenians were drastically oppressed under the heel of the Ottoman Turks. During WWI, the Turks accused the (Christian) Armenians as liable to ally with Imperial Russia, and used it as a pretext to deal with the entire Armenian population as an enemy within their empire. Genocide was implemented as the final solution.

  The slaughter began on Saturday, April 24^th, 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up, arrested, and subsequently executed some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople.

  The genocide continued in phases with the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape, and massacre. The total murdered may be as high as 1.5 million. (The preceding information is gleaned from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia )

  The West, including USA, knew what the Islamic Turks were doing, but did next to nothing beyond a few expressed protestations.

  USA Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Ottoman Empire, 1913-16, wrote “I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”

  USA Consul to Harput, Leslie A. Davis, 1914-17, wrote “It has been no secret the plan was to destroy the Armenian race as a race, but the methods used have been more cold-blooded and barbarous, if not more effective, than I had first supposed.”

  Adolf Hitler gave the Armenian genocide considerable thought, and in 1939 while Chancellor of Nazi Germany penned “I have placed my death-head [military Einsatzgruppe;”task forces”] formations in readiness – for the present only in the East –with orders to them to  send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

  And so the great Holocaust began.

  And now do we have 1939 all over again?

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