The Holocaust Iran Prevented
Before 1935, the Islamic Republic of Iran was known as Persia. Persia’s ambassador to Nazi Germany suggested the name change after being influenced by Adolf Hitler’s regime. After 1935, many Persians turned to hatred and anti-Semitism.
Some of the most prominent images in Iran today are military parades showcasing various types of military hardware from scuds to ballistic missiles. Protests are filled with chants of “Death to America.” Its leaders constantly threaten to wipe out the Jewish state of Israel. Additionally, Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism—and despite the recent nuclear deal, there is mounting evidence that Iran is actively developing a nuclear weapon.
This past month, Iran held its third annual Holocaust Cartoon contest, in which anyone around the world could submit a cartoon, mocking the Holocaust. This is a perverse demonstration of the Iranian regime’s rampant anti-Semitism. Ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, hatred for the Jews has been one of the nation’s most consistent and enduring legacies. The thought of such a government acquiring nuclear weapons is terrifying.
This Islamist culture that now dominates Iran is actually a somewhat recent phenomena. When we look back at the history of the Persian people, we see an inspiring heritage that Iran has lost. The Armageddon doctrine of Iran’s mullahs comes from their Islamic teachings—not from Persian antiquity. The Persian people have a long, proud history that includes producing perhaps the most beneficent empire until the British Empire. Human rights, massive infrastructure investment, an efficient postal system and ancient dignity are among the achievements of the Persians. But the one aspect of Persian history that stands out among them all is their special relationship with the Jewish people.
Long before he was born, Persian King Cyrus was prophesied in the Holy Bible not only to conquer Babylon but to order the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 585 b.c. When Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon in 539 b.c., all of the details prophesied in the Bible were fulfilled to the precise detail. To study more of this astounding history, please read columnist Brad Macdonald’s article “The Startling Truth About One of History’s Greatest Kings.”
But there was another event that occurred after the reign of Cyrus that is important to understand. When the Persian Empire was at its zenith under King Xerxes, one of the most interesting and dramatic episodes of intrigue took place that almost succeeded in destroying all Jews in the known world.
These events can only be found in the biblical book of Esther.
When Xerxes was planning his invasion of Greece, he banished his wife, Queen Vashti, for not obeying his orders. A seemingly inconsequential event left the king companionless just before he implemented his plans to expand the Persian Empire. Consumed with the expansion, Xerxes did not worry about finding a new queen immediately.
Ten years earlier, the westward expansion of Persia was stymied at the battle of Marathon against the Greeks, which was one of the greatest last stands in military history. In 480 b.c., Xerxes’s army of 500,000 built a bridge over the Dardanelles (a great feat of engineering) and marched toward northern Greece, with its sights set on Athens.
Xerxes now determined to take his army to Athens through the Thermopylae Pass, which was only 50 feet wide at its narrowest point. Approximately 6,000 Spartans held off the Persian army until they were betrayed and surrounded. In the end, 300 Spartan hoplites made a last stand and perished, giving the Athenians enough time to organize their defense. At the brilliant battle of Salamis, the Persian navy was defeated and Xerxes was forced to withdraw.
Back in the palace of Shushan, Xerxes still reigned over the world’s greatest empire, but his defeat led to melancholy and thoughts of a new wife. He ordered his servants to gather all the beautiful virgins in the kingdom for him to choose from. These women would be given one evening with the king to make an impression on him.
Among these young women was Hadassah, known as Esther. She was a Jewess whose parents had died when she was young. Esther was raised by her Uncle Mordecai, who worked in the king’s gate, probably as a bookkeeper.
Jews lived throughout the kingdom since Babylon uprooted them from Judah. Some had returned to Jerusalem during Cyrus’s reign under Governor Zerubbabel, but most were scattered in the Persian Empire.
The process of choosing a wife took months. During this time, Esther gained favor with Xerxes’s servants. Mordecai raised Esther to fear God, and her respectful femininity won Xerxes’s heart. But she had one secret that she never told him. Mordecai commanded her not to reveal she was a Jew. Anti-Semitism was rampant in ancient times, as has been throughout history.
Just after Esther married Xerxes and became queen of Persia, Mordecai discovered a plot against the king. He reported it to Esther, the plot was thwarted, and the two offenders were hanged. Mordecai’s part in saving the king was recorded but remained unknown by Xerxes. Mordecai continued his work in the king’s gate, performing his regular duties until another character entered the drama.
King Xerxes established Haman as his new prime minister, the chief prince of the kingdom. Wherever Haman walked, the king’s servants were to bow in reverence to him. But when Haman walked by the king’s gate, Mordecai refused to bow—he would bow to no man.
Haman was a descendant of Agag, king of the Amalekites. Centuries earlier, a descendant of Agag’s claimed to have killed King Saul, and King David executed him for it. There was a great deal of tension between the Jews and the Agagites ever since.
To Haman, who disliked the Jews, Mordecai was a rebellious dissident. His refusal to bow before him made Haman furious, so he sought to have Mordecai killed. But it didn’t stop there; his hatred for just one man could not be contained. Haman ambiguously asked Xerxes for the authority to destroy a certain rebellious people who would not keep the king’s laws—a request that was granted. Xerxes did not know that the Jews were the target, and Haman now had the chance to wipe out an entire race.
The decree sent out to the four corners of the kingdom gave permission to any member of the kingdom, on a certain date, to kill any Jew—young or old, male or female. They could take their possessions for a spoil. It was Persian tradition that once a decree was law, it could not be repealed. Thus, Haman had a legalized holocaust.
The entire Jewish race seemed destined to perish. Mordecai started fasting in sackcloth and ashes, which was illegal to do in the presence of the king. When Esther heard of it, she sent Mordecai some clothes, but he refused to take them. It was then that she learned of the fate of her people.
Mordecai told her that it was her duty to ask the king to stop the holocaust. At that point, Esther hadn’t been called on by the king in a month. If she appeared before the king without being summoned, she could be killed. She would only be spared if the king extended his golden scepter.
Esther hesitated to go before Xerxes, but Mordecai told her that perhaps the only reason God had allowed her to become queen was to save her people from this holocaust. She sent back a response to Mordecai, asking that he and all the Jews in Shushan join her in a fast for three days and nights before she approach the king. She ended with the words: “If I perish, I perish.”
At the end of the three days of fasting and beseeching God, Esther went before King Xerxes. When Esther approached the king, he happily greeted her and extended the scepter toward her. She would not die, but she also wanted the same mercy extended to her people. She invited the king and Haman to a private banquet in an effort to gain the king’s favor. The first night of the banquet delighted both men. They both agreed to come back for a second night.
In the next 24 hours, two events occurred that are important to the climax of this history. As Haman returned to his house from the royal banquet, the sight of Mordecai launched him into white hot fury. He ordered the construction of a special gallows to hang Mordecai on the next day. This appeased his wrath, and he slept soundly.
That same night, Xerxes could not sleep. He used his time to read some of his kingdom’s recent history. It was then that he read that Mordecai had uncovered the plot against him and that no reward had been given. The king intended to make up for the oversight.
The next morning when Haman visited the king, Xerxes asked him what reward should be given to the man whom the king delights in. Haman believed the king must be referring to himself, so he described a royal parade of splendor. The king told him to do everything he said, to the minutest details, for Mordecai. Haman could not believe it, but he had to carry out the king’s orders, dressing Mordecai in the king’s apparel and leading him on the king’s horse through the streets of Shushan.
The humiliated and dejected Haman returned home to find that his wife had a dream in which Haman was destroyed by the Jews. The distressed man was then whisked away to the second banquet with Esther and the king.
As the king enjoyed the second night with the queen and Haman, Esther put her plan into action. She told the king that there was a plot to destroy her people from the kingdom. Xerxes’s wrath began to boil, and he demanded to know who was responsible. Esther pointed at Haman, who sat speechless, frozen in fear and bewilderment. Haman begged for his life, but to no avail. Xerxes had him hung on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai.
But the Jews were still not safe, even though their persecutor was dead. The decree giving permission to kill the Jews could not be revoked. So Xerxes issued a new decree, giving the Jews the right to defend themselves if they were attacked. When the day came that the Jews were supposed to be destroyed, over 75,000 anti-Semites died at the hands of the defending Jews. Thus their place in the kingdom was safe, and Xerxes and his Jewish queen ruled over a tranquil kingdom. Mordecai replaced Haman as prime minister, and the destiny of the Jews was preserved.
King Xerxes and the Persian Empire preserved the promises that were to transform the whole world. Years later, Ezra and the temple prophets would come and finish the temple in Jerusalem. King Artaxerxes, son of Xerxes, would send Nehemiah back to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. From those Jews in the homeland would come the seed of promise, Jesus Christ, through whom all men, Jew and Gentile, may be saved.
This is the precious history the people of Iran have forgotten. They played a pivotal role in fulfilling the plan of the great God. Instead of seeking the genocide of the Jews, the leaders of Persia became the guardians of their lives. If only the people of Iran would remember the great King Xerxes and how he helped the Jews, rather than seeking their destruction. It is tragic that a nation with such a rich history with the Almighty God, and who changed the world forever through helping a people that everyone despised, should descend into the slavery of hatred. Iran once stopped a holocaust, but today, it is planning another.
For more information on the incredible history of Iran, read “The Startling Truth About One of History’s Greatest Kings.”
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@Ton Iranians are not Semites, you’re thinking of Arabs. So yes Iranians can be anti-Semite.
One correction I’ll make, although I could make many more… Persians cannot be anti Semitic because they are Semitic. Jews are not the only Semitic people
On the topic of Iran and that so called “deal” about Iran going or not going nuclear. Obama, Kerry were so naive as to feel that they could have genuine constructive negotiations the Iranian officials of the mullahs , ayatollahs and other Muslim tyrants in power in this Islamic regime do serve a good example of of some politicians in Western countries are gullible to the point of foolishness and folly. For the disingenuous and outright lying Iranian officials of the ruling Islamic tyrants in Iran will only speak the truth when in happens to suite their goals. The rest of the time the will be speaking half -truths and total lies Likewise the mullahs and others in power in Iran will keep their word in anything that they may promise only as long as it fits the Islamic Shi’ite agenda and no longer. In any “dialogue” the Iranian officials will engage in the practice of the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya. Which is the Islamic dogma of Taqiyya that deception and lying is a good thing to do as long as its done for the good of Islam. To make matter even worse Shi’ite Islam has the teaching of the twelfth Imam. This character is also call the al Mahdi which may be translated in English as “the Rightly Guided one” who is a kind of Islamic messiah who ,they believe , will in the future come and then conquer the whole world for Islam. Nevertheless ,they believe, before the Mahdi comes to “set every thing right” the world event needs to get worse not better. That’s one reason ,the Mahidi,that the mullahs and ayatollahs want to go nuclear, for the construction of weapons of mass destruction come in. So even the attempting to have reasoned , logical worthwhile talks with officials of the deceptive and lying mullahs and other irrational Muslims in power in Iran with their mad Islamic fantasy of a Mahdi coming to establish a worldwide caliphate is a fool thing to try.
About this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran which so falsely and inappropriately has the word “Republic” in its title is very much against the State of Israel. Too such a demonic and extreme hate -filled spirit of the mullahs and the others in power in Iran would, if they could, create another holocaust against both the Jewish people and the Jewish nation that is the State of Israel This many shown that in the year 1982 Iran started and founded the brutal and murderous Islamic terror organization Hezbollah and still funds and supplies the jihad terror entity even now the weapons and other things. Likewise, Iran funds and supplies with weapon the cruel ,vicious and deadly Islamic terror entity Hamas. As for the mullahs and ayatollahs of Iran with their jihadist /stooges who are Hamas and Hezbollah members, the more fool them . For even-though they are too ignorant to know it ,it their agenda to destroy the State of Israel ,they are starving against the Will of God . Therefore they are fated to fail in their goal to “wipe-out ” Israel. In other words, they will all lose in the end because they are greatly overruled by the God of the Bible. For in the Bible it’s clearly seen that God has given all of this land that now composes the State of Israel, including the West Bank, to the Jewish people. As found in ,for example Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12 Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. In addition to all this, the Bible further teaches in Psalm 135:4 “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself. Israel for His special treasure.” [N.K.J.V.] So this land that is now Israel belong to the Jewish people by Divine Right. Moreover, this land also belongs to the Jewish people by historic rights. As revealed in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56. Nevertheless,in all fairness to the mullahs and ayatollahs as well as to the jihadists members Hezbollah and Hamas .There is one way that they may will convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and even cause God to turn His Back on Israel and thus have that nation be no more. That way is for the mullahs and ayatollahs along with jihadists of Hezbollah and Hamas to gather together and then change to law of astrophysics , including those laws of astrophysics that control the sun the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word ,the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night… The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me , saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”
The entire constitution of this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is the Koran , or as some people call this religious book the Quran . Since the very foundation of this Islamic tyranny in Iran is then actually based on the the Quran this leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
This heinous Islamic regime of Iran is even false in its name. For it has the title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran.” It is Islamic for sure, but its falsely called a “republic.” This is because a real Republic comes from the Latin word; res-publica meaning “The property of the people” This is one thing that this brutal and harsh Islamic tyranny is not. For the mullahs and ayatollahs who have the strong and terrible power in this Islamic have much control. Even the Iranian parliament is much influenced by those ruling Muslim clerics. Those mullahs and ayatollahs of this Islamic dictatorship come down very hard on the human rights of the Iranian people through their ruthless gang of thugs who are called “The Republican Guard.” Furthermore, this hideous type of hard and oppressive tyranny is taught about in the Bible .For in Ecclesiastes 4 :1 in teaches about “the tears of the oppressed.” and about all the power being “on the side of the oppressors.” Likewise, in that same Bible book in 5:8 it informs the reader not to be naïve about such awful wickedness. For it teaches “If you see the poor oppressed…and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things.” Moreover in Proverbs 15:15 it also teaches “All the days of the oppressed are wretched…” In addition, the Iranian president, Rouhani and ayatollah Khamenei may be described in Proverbs 28:15 which reads “Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked man ruling over a helpless people.” In short, the brutal and vicious Islamic regime of those two characters, just mention, as well as the other mullahs , ayatollahs and other Muslim tyrants who have such harsh and brutal control with their terrible oppression over the lives of the Iranian people , Proverbs 29:2 is thus very appropriate . For it teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]
First, on May 8, 2016 CBN reported that just two day before May 8 that rogue state of Iran in the “test firing of one of its missiles actually had printed on that missile in the words in Hebrew “Israel must be wiped off the map.” This alone exposes the malice -filled and destructive intent of the Mullahs, ayatollahs and other Muslim tyrants who have much powers in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran. They want a a twenty-first century holocaust against the Jewish nation of the State of Israel. Second, the “test firing” of a missile last month and likewise earlier this year “test firing” of other missiles, shows the gall and defiance of those mullahs and ayatollahs along those other Muslim villains in power in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran their total arrogant contempt for the US and the other Western nations in this so called “deal.” Those Muslim clerics and other Muslim tyrants in power in this cruel and oppressive Islamic tyranny are, in character, reflected in the Bible in Psalm 73:6-9. Which reads, “Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. From their callous hearts comes iniquity; the evil conceits of their mind know limits. They scoff and speak with malice; in their arrogance they threaten oppression. Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.” [N.I.V.]
Israel was formed in 1948 is a prophecy come true.
Israel won wars in 1948, 1956. 1967, 1973 despite being heavily outnumbered in arms, guns, ammunition, naval vessels, submarines, airplanes, helicopters, tanks, armoured vehicles and having fought on every front.
God bless Israel and the Jews!!!