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3) Revival of the word Holocaust
For 2000 years the Greek version of the word 'holocaust' has been available and readily accessible in the Septuagint translation, due to the study of the New Testament, where it has been used to refer to a sacrifice made by burnt offering. Just in this last century the word was used for the first time to describe a modern event.
Once we understand the way in which the word holocaust is used by the Septuagint translation we see that the modern event is just like an offering, a sacrifice. Without that great sacrifice Israel would not exist. Every Israeli knows the Land is their heritage, hope and their place of deliverance. For the nation of Israel to obtain that deliverance some, a representative number of the multitude of man, six million were first made a sacrifice of, a burnt offering, in an oven. This fits a pattern set down by Yahweh for a sacrifice for atonement.
The nature of the sacrifice cannot be mistaken. For associated with the event is the images of ovens, of smoke ascending and of cattle cars. King David points out that the sacrifice must be at a cost. It is well known that the Jewish people paid a great monetary price also, in that the nations seized their assets, money and, particularly, their gold (including the fillings in their teeth). Also, of the deliverance from Egypt it is written
But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. (Deuteronomy 4:20 KJV)
At that time Moses took ashes from a furnace to throw to the heavens to create a plague upon man as they said reported Yahweh's words to Pharaoh, “Let my people go.” It is recorded by the Prophets that the deliverance of Israel would be like that of the deliverance from Egypt.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt. (Hosea 2:15 KJV)
And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them. ... I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. (Zechariah 10:6-10 KJV)
The process of Yahweh having mercy has begun and the deliverance, of coming out of an iron furnace and one of a great sacrifice has happened.
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