After ministering at the Mill yesterday with other brothers in Christ, Mickey and I went to the Holocaust Museum. It was both heavy and ironic. Heavy because of the atrocities the Nazi’s did to Jews, Polish, and Gypsies. Ironic because we are doing the same kind of atrocities to the preborn in our country, except on a much larger and more sinisterly systematic scale.

On a sign titled Bystanders, this was written:

“The great majority of Europeans during the period of the Holocaust were neither killers nor victims. But whether or not they were involved in the ongoing genocide or understood the full extent of the "Final Solution," most could observe small events forming part of the catastrophe as it unfolded in their own communities.

In France, the existence of numerous detention camps for Jewish refugees--many established even before the German conquest--was known to the public. In eastern Europe, Poles watched as ghettos for Jews were filled with deportees from foreign countries and nearby towns and villages. Like citizens of the Soviet and Baltic republics, Poles knew about the massacres taking place in nearby forests. From 1933 on, Germans watched in silence as their Jewish neighbors were isolated, dispossessed, and deported for “resettlement in the East.”

Some bystanders sought to exploit the situation of the Jews for personal gain, but most merely stood by, neither collaborating nor coming to the aid of the victims. This passivity amounted to acquiescence, and the planners and executors of the "Final Solution" counted on bystanders" not intervening in the process of genocide.”

Outside of the Museum, this is written in stone:

“Out of our memory of the holocaust we must forge an unshakable oath with all civilized people that never again will the world stand silent. Never again will the world fail to act in time to prevent this terrible crime of genocide. We must harness the outrage of our own memories to stamp out oppression where ever it exists. We must understand that human rights and human dignity are indivisible.”

These are just words. Apply it to the 60+ million babies in the womb. Babies who are murdered up until and after birth in DC.

God, grant repentance to us who have sat by silently like those Europeans. Wake up your people to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Equip us with your Law and Gospel, and empower us by your Spirit, to tear down these High Places!

“Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. "Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken." Isaiah‬ ‭1:16-20‬