TIM TROCMORTON: History always matters – Ironon Tribune

The 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation from the Soviet troops was recently celebrated in place of the former death camp, a ceremony that was widely treated as the last major observance, at which any remarkable number of survivors would be present.

The Nazi German forces killed about 1.1 million people in the place in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II.

Most of the victims were Jews killed on an industrial scale in gas chambers, but the Germans also killed many poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners, gay people and others who were aimed at eliminating Nazi racial ideology.

The year was 2016 and I was blessed to spend time with a person who literally experienced the most devastating time in the history of the world, the Holocaust.

His name is Irving Roth. Roth’s family moved to Hungary from Slovakia in 1943, where Jews are still safe.

The tide of war turns against the Nazis.

Rots believed that the war would soon end and they would survive.

In the spring of 1944, Irving Roth celebrated Easter, the festival of historical oppression and liberation of the Jews under the reign of the Pharaohs, hoping that his own liberation was on the way.

In April 1944, the Hungarian government decided to eliminate the Jewish population of Hungary.

He was captured and taken to Auschwitz, and later Buchenwald, if he had hardly survived until the end of the war, in which more than six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

One time we were together, Irving rolled up his sleeve and showed me the numbers tattooed on his hand.

He looked at me, and unfortunately said, “I remember how I felt when it was put on my hand, it was a terrible time,” he continued, “I’m afraid he became a terrible weather again!”

So, while this chapter of history is written in the life of Irving, on June 6, 1944, over 160,000 troops from America, UK, Canada, Free France, Poland and other nations landed along 50 miles from the Normandy coast of Normandy France.

It was the largest force of the amphibian invasion of world history, supported by 5,000 ships with 195,700 Navy staff and 13,000 aircraft. “

No one knew if he would succeed, no one knew those things that only God could know.

But everyone knew they were called to stand, fight and persevere. If they had failed another invasion, another effort would have been a distance of months or years.

The Nazis are likely to refine their rockets, their jet planes, and would kill almost all other Jews in Europe.

The supreme commander of the invasion of June 6, Dwight D. Eisenhower sent his troops into battle, calling on the protection of the Almighty God.

The author of a vaguely small letter, set at the end of the New Testament, Jude, gives us a call for moments like this.

He writes: “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write you, exhorting you to fight seriously about the faith that was once for all of the saints.”

A wonderful paraphrase the message makes the passage in this way: “I have to write, insisting that I beg! That you are struggling with everything you have in you for this faith is entrusted to us as a gift for security and splitting. “

Did you catch the word race? Jude is the story of the people who commit apostasy … those who drop out of Jesus Christ.

The verse before us is for starting and finishing well. I think Jude gives us at least three wonderful reminders.

First, the great start is a bit when it is followed by a bad end.

Ask every pilot, a good flight is never without a good landing.

Second, we are joking if we think our character does not matter.

I recently met with the pastor of a big church who, when I asked the question: “How can I pray for you?”

His answer “Pray for Wisdom, Courage and Purity.”

Good advice! And lastly, a great ending happens, paying the attention of God’s things carefully.

I have a photo in my office at the runner of the Tanzania Marathon John Stephen Akhhri, who lost the race at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, but is still a hero in the hearts of millions.

Not long after the start of the marathon at the Mexico Olympics, he fell and was severely wounded.

When he was limping at the stadium of bloody and bandaged legs an hour after the winner of the race left, there were only a few spectators left in the stands.

Asked why he did not withdraw from the competition, the response of Akhwari was calm and simple. “My country did not send me to start the race, they sent me to finish it!”

God has put you and me in a blessed people at a wonderful moment in time; Let us, with his help … finish well!

TIM TROCOMONTH is President of LifePointe ministries.