Righteous among the Nations

(Radmacher, Allen & House, 2007, p. 1037). He lived in Jerusalem, and was called upon to deliver God’s message during the Assyrian crisis (Hays, 2010, p. 96). Isaiah delivered words of confrontation, exhortation, and warning. This made Isaiah unpopular among the people (Radmacher, Allen & House, 2007, p. 1037). Isaiah’s message was delivered during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, and all the kings of Judah who reigned from 792 B.C. until 687 B.C (Hays, 2010, p. 96). Isaiah…

an actual place of punishment, but it is clear that it is only used (even in reference to the righteous) when they are faced with some unhappy situation, which they interpret as divine judgment. Furthermore, a slight change occurred in how Sheol is presented in the prophets. There, it is often associated with prophetic judgments, punishment and suffering for the wicked. As the OT closes and we move to the NT, the term Sheol disappears, and a new term “Hell” is introduced. What had happened to…

Adolf hitler killed over 6 million Jews during the holocaust. A Lot of people didn't support Hitler and Himmler's plan, and Jan karski was one of those people. Born in poland, he strongly believed in freedom of religion. He did not support how hitler killed so many innocent people. He worked hard during his life and through his capture. Even after he escaped, he went back to the underground and saved many people's lives. After touring the Warsaw Ghetto, he donned a disguise to enter a nazi…

justification? How long will justification last? How long does it take to be justified? Using passages like Romans 3:21-26, among others, this paper will seek to answer these questions about the multi-faceted topic of Justification. Definition The Greek word…

across personalized and angsty. He was continuously insulting all white people as his evidence for his argument. His entire paper contains an over simplified dichotomy of good and evil. All black people are innocent sufferers of a corrupt and evil nation and all white people are evil overlords out to continually suppress the rights of others. He completely ignores the fact that many white people suffered as slaves or as poor farmers or immigrants, some were lynched and abused right alongside the…

“Whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world”, Mishnah Sanhedrin Rescue in Albania Introduction The Holocaust was the biggest disaster in modern Jewish history, and the largest genocide in the 20th century; the Nazi regime and their allies brutally killed close to six millions innocent Jews (more than two thirds of Jewish population in Europe at that time). With Adolf Hitler’s appointment as a chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in…

help to achieve his purpose of uniting the nation. Clearly, we see he is speaking to both the North and South as his audience. He uses such words as: “both, us, we, neither, each” in order to help us understand clearly who his speech is aimed towards. Lincoln’s positive diction creates a feeling of forgiveness by the use of such words as “bind up” and “peace.” Lincoln uses the words “bind up” and “peace” to express the direction in which he hopes the nation will start to go from that point on. A…

“what is going on?” As we look at Psalm 2, we must remember the role that Psalm 1 and 2 play in the Psalter. Both of these act like two great pillars, introducing and providing the support and theme of the Psalter. Psalm 1 introduces the road of the righteous in contrast with the way of the wicked. As we turn to Psalm 2, we see a picture of what it looks like for individual wickedness to be magnified. Psalm 1 tells us that the most…

The three periods of Moses’s life were as follows, Moses, born a son of a Hebrew slave rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter and later adopted by her. Moses, became a prince in Pharaoh’s palace, he later escaped to the desert of Midian as a result of killing an Egyptian. Moses married, became a shepherd and disconnected from his home and family in Egypt. While Moses tended the flock God called Moses from a burning bush and commissioned him to lead the people of Israel out of bondage. In Exodus 3:2…

Kritikou, a woman that was brave enough to shelter a family of Jews. Even with the fact that she was poor, and little is known about her life, we do know that she saved a family. For deciding to help that family of Jews, she was recognized as Righteous among the Nations (Wikipedia) and is also known as a Woman of Valor (Vashem). With that in mind let’s go uncover what she did. Let’s start with some basic information, Holocaust means “sacrifice by fire” if you trace it back to its Greek origin…