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The road to true freedom
by Jerold Aust
he Mossad, Israel's secret service, captured
one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann,
on May 11, 1960.
Eichmann, head of the Nazi concentration-camp system, was "the man whose crimes set the standards of Nazi barbarism," wrote Peter Malkin (Reader's Digest, February 1991).
"He was the one the survivors talked about, more than Himmler or Göring, more even than Hitler. Newspaper articles appeared. Eyewitness accounts were recorded. In the public mind, he soon took on mythic proportions of evil; a contemporary Satan, the one who had organized it all."
Eichmann was the organizer and executor of the final solution-the extermination of the Jewish populace. Millions died, carrying their unspeakable pain and suffering with them to the grave. Survivors recounted the hell they had endured. We have heard the stories from those who lived to tell the tale.
This is not the first time history has recorded man's inhumanity to man. Yet, in sheer numbers alone, these atrocities have seldom been paralleled in the annals of history.
In the Bible, we see similar heinous acts perpetrated by men against other humans. In Exodus, we read that the Israelites were persecuted, brutalized and killed by the Egyptians (Exodus 1-6). God had to soften Pharaoh's cruel heart through several miserable plagues, finally taking the lives of the firstborn in Egypt, both man and beast. Only then was Pharaoh temporarily convinced to give the Israelites leave to go to the desert to worship their God.
The time of Israel's departure was the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This was no coincidence. It was divinely planned, for the meanings of this special feast are inseparably linked with deliverance from bondage. God's deliverance of an enslaved Israel out of a powerful, domineering Egypt serves as the prototype of our supernatural deliverance from sin today. This is the dramatic essence and meaning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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