During a visit to Yad VaShem in Jerusalem in 1985, I photographed a Nazi lampshade made from a Torah scroll. The amber parchment, crudely cut, sutured together and hanging from a chain, is from Exodus 15, which tells the story of Israel's deliverance from Egyptian slavery. The center panel is from their victory song, verse 18. The fourth line in the panel reads:

“The LORD will rule as king for ever and ever.”

It’s prophetically ironic.

The pagan Nazis were defeated, their Pharaoh became ashes—and the 3,500-year-old Song of Moses endures to this day. But for many Jews there is no song of victory. The lampshade is an emblem of the demonic effort to destroy the People of Israel by destroying their faith in the God of those Scriptures.

It worked terribly.

The spiritual holocaust has taken a far greater toll among the Jewish people. The Bible is, for so many, a dead book; they’re dead to God. They can’t hear Him, so they don’t believe Him. Many even hate Him.

For such souls, Yeshua can become the agent for restoring hearing and life. As it says, “The Seh (Lamb) will be their shepherd and will guide them to the springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes” (Revelation 7).