The Holocaust : Where Was God?

In this 122-page book, Art Katz peers into a "burning bush" that few have been willing to peer into. It is a "daring hypothesis," as the back of the book describes, and he opens it up with both prophetic audacity and anguish. This is not a speculative book, written to make money off of controversial ideas. It is a cry for the true knowledge of God, and a call for men to look into the Scriptures and into history, to see that God has been at work in the midst of tragedy and tumult, and that He has sought to reveal Himself in judgment and in mercy. Indeed, as Art proposes, we have been unwilling to see God as the Scriptures have set Him forth, and this has paralyzed our ability to see Him as He is in the present. Unwilling to see the Lord as both Savior AND Judge, we have failed to see Him in truth, and our nation is plagued with mirky ideas of who He is. No where in modern history, as the author sets forth, has this reality been more neglected than in our consideration of the holocaust of the Nazi era. While painful and gut-wrenching to consider, the author believes it is the Church's prophetic responsibility to communicate the character and intention of God in these great shakings, and he argues that the neglect of such considerations fixes us in a shallow faith that is not grounded on reality. I encourage all to prayerfully, and with Bibles open, take up this book from Art Katz. Stare long and hard into what he has written here. Ask the Lord for wisdom and grace. Read through the Biblical passages he cites. I believe this little book is a crucial foundational stone, meant to be a catalytic tool for thrusting us into the true knowledge of God.