A Heart Touching Memorial In Tennessee
Ueli Surbeck
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DECEMBER 8, 2007
One October morning we decided to go to Whitwell, Tennessee, about a two hour drive from Nashville. Whitwell is where the Middle School children orchestrated the Paper Clip project, and made a Holocaust Memorial, (displaying in a boxcar actually used to take the Jewish people to the death camps during the time of the holocaust) the 6 million paper clips representing a memorial for the Jewish people that died in the Holocaust...It was absolutely awesome for us to be there and blow our Shofar's there...We had seen the documentary on the Paper Clip Project and it was very touching to our hearts. Of course having been in Israel six years, we both have a heart for the Jewish people, and have actually been to Yad VaShem (the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem) many times, you are not ready for what you see there.
This was truly an amazing Day and as we are preparing this Article we felt led by the Holy Spirit to include this part as well. I brought back a stone for each of my friends and family from Whitwell. The Jewish people give rocks instead of flowers on graves, so there are many stones there stacked up and so forth .
The Paper clip project from the school in Whitwell Tennessee is very amazing. The even more amazing thing is, that this small town is located only a hundred miles from the location where the KKK was founded, in Pulaski TN, and not fare from Dayton where the famous “Monkey Trial” happened back in 1925 where John Scopes was found guilty for teaching Evolution which was at that time against Tennessee law because at that time in Tennessee by Law only creation based on the teaching of the Bible was taught.
You can see below all the other things 6 million paper clips that represent the 6 million Jews that died in the Holocaust. And on the right an old suitcase sent from Germany from school children to apologize to Anne Frank.
This is a project which has led to a wonderful relationship between Jews and Christians and a stand for righteousness, a stand against hate, racism and anti-Semitism. It is a stand the true Church of today has to take.
During the past Days the Lord led us to read the Book of Esther. It is a story which perfectly fits with the Message of the Paper Clip Project, and a Message the Lord has on His Heart to impart to His Body in this Hour. Every Memorial, the ones we find in the Bible and the once we find through out History are important. They carry a special message for mankind. This are like sharp stones, the Holy Spirits is using to circumcise our Hearts and today our Hearts have to be circumcised if we want to walk with Him and Do His Works. Joshua 4 and 5.
In the Book of Esther we find Mordecai, a man loyal to God, the King of Persia and the people he belonged to, the Jews. He was part of the tribe of Benjamin, a son of Kish. This already shows, that he had a living memorial in his life: The life of King Saul, who was likewise from the tribe of Benjamin and was as well a son of Kish. The first King of Israel, who lost His Royalty in compromising with the Rhema Word of God given to him to execute Judgment on the Chief Leader of a Terrorist Nation in Arabia, Agag king of the Amalekites, in executing Him.
Yes God is a Holy and Righteous God when people overboard, God wants justice to be established!.
This is the boxcar, the actual Memorial, the paper clips are inside the boxcar, that took them to the death camp. There are 6 million on one side and 5 million on the other, for the other five million people Hitler killed...and 11 million are also in this Memorial outside with the children..
And later King Saul not only lost His Royalty, but in
consulting a witch and taking part in a ritual to contact demons he ultimately
was defeated in Battle where he lost his life 
and the most important thing in life, his Salvation!
This was a very powerful memorial for Mordecai, the Benjamite, and like the Book of Esther shows, he was committed, the Day he would receive a chance, to do differently. So he did! Living in ancient Persia in the City of the Persian King he uncovered a plot against the King. And after a while he uncovered a plot against the Jewish people, in a very strange way planed by a high Official and descendant of King Agag, Haman. And God heard his prayers and gave his adopted daughter favor with the King and turned that evil plot around into a great victory for the Jewish people, who lived in Persia. God turned the shame which was on the tribe of Benjamin, committed by the first King of Israel around through Mordecai and Esther's commitment to risk their lives to intervene in behalf of their people and taking stand of righteousness in a time of great darkness.
In 1998 I had an opportunity to visit Poland twice. Today when I am looking back I understand that this was a life changing experience, visiting the Concentration Camps of Auschwitz, and several other Places in Poland with similar History.
Laying on the floor where Jews where executed by the thousands for no reason and Repenting for the Sins of my life and the lives of my Forefathers and their compromise and silence during that time and praying to understand how this could ever have happened changed my Heart and Life. God circumcised my Heart and gave me a resolution to stand against Evil, I did not have before. Once you have seen the darkness in this places produced by a combination of Witchcraft, Hate and Anti-Semitism, part of it instigated in the Body of Christ centuries ago, it is obvious, that when ever you are confronted with this Issues you take a stand. There is no way to be silent, even if some People do not understand your reactions and stand on righteousness! Why because the Memorial of Auschwitz opened my eyes and changed my Heart...! It is a memorial which was and still is impossible for many people in Europe to face, because of the tragedy attached to it and the Guilt it brings if we see it without the touch of true Forgiveness from the Lord and the leading of the Holy Spirit. But today where we live now more then 60 years after WWII and a new Generation seems to have no knowledge of History, and in certain countries the facts of the Holocaust are either officially denied or people are afraid to talk about. Even more, when we see where we are going and consider, that the main Issue of the coming Storm in the Middle East is a new showdown between the spiritual descendant of King Agag and his grandson Haman of the Amalekites, or with other words a modern Day Haman with his ten sons and followers, driven by one of the most evil Principalities from the Pit of Hell, who plans and prepares in a much more sophisticated way to annihilate Israel and the Jewish people together with the Western World which has not bowed to them until this point, it is even more important today, that the Memorial of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Treblinka and Whitwell come alive today.
And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Ester 4:13 and 14
I believe, that especially in Germany God is raising a young
Generation of Radical Believers who understand how our Lord has forgiven them
the sin of the past, washed them and cleansed them with the purpose to make
them more radical for Him, the Nation of Israel and the Jewish people, more
radical and committed to the Lord 
Jesus and His Word, then the Nazis
served satan.
The History of Nazi Germany is such a great lesson to the World today how a so called Christian Nation can open their Doors to satan, like they did when they imported the so called seat of satan from Pergamon Turkey, at the end of the 19th century and when the Holy Spirit started to bring a fresh flow of Revival early 20th century they aborted it as a Nation by the Declaration of Berlin done by most of the well known Ministers of Germany at that time. When Hitler and his followers started to flood Germany with Greek-German Paganism and established a Replica of the Seat of Satan to gather and address the Nation in Nuremberg, and brought hundreds of Monks from Tibet to Berlin to “generate Power” for himself everyday to enable him to do what he did, everybody should have understood that this would lead to the destruction of Jewish people, the Nation of Germany and Millions of people from other European Countries, America and Russia.
When God is washing away this type of Sin He makes you Radical in the very same way He became, after being anointed by the Holy Spirit and Power and went to the Temple, a place He dearly loved and since He was born had visited three times a year to pray and worship our Heavenly Father. But grieved over the corruption and deception which was introduced in this supposed to be Most Holy Place He took a whip and cleaned it out. He did it at the Beginning and at the end of His Ministry and it was the Beginning of a Great Revival which changed Jerusalem for centuries to come: We are here blowing God's Shofar!
Matthew 21:12 - 14 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of thieves.'" Then the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
When you see, the horrors of the Holocaust and understand the root cause, are you ready to become radical like Jesus and take a stand against the new types of Witchcraft which are flooding our western Nations, Paganism and all the different lifestyles promoted by it, Hate and especially Antisemitism! Jesus wants us to become Holy and Radical without being religious or legalistic, exactly like He was, so we can make a difference in the Time where we are, and that the new Fountain He opens in this Hour, will not be filled with Witchcraft, Hate and Antisemitism in the next few Days and years, but as you stay radical in Praise, Worship and Action, Grow in the Lord and in the Power of His Might His Anointing will Fill you and empower you to Run with Him and do the Works He is calling you to do!
This is the message of Hanukkah! It is imperative in this hour, where we see the showdown getting ready in the Middle East with the consequences which will touch all the Nations, North, East, West and South between modern Day Amalekites and Israel coming into place, that the Body of Christ, especially in Europe and North America let the Memorials from the Holocaust, empowered by the Holy Spirit speak louder then ever into and through our lives and that we take a stand like Mordecai and Esther, who took their stand for the God of Israel, the Nation of Israel and the Jewish people. It is for such a time as this, that we have been redeemed by His Blood, restored by His Word and empowered by the Holy Spirit and became a Royal Priest's in His Kingdom, that we take a rightful stand in this Hour.
Its an imperative if we want to have a new Fountain
established in our life to give us freshwater every day, because if we refuse
this Call, that new established Fountain and later our lives will for sure
perish! If we see in the past decades the Western World including the Church
flooded with Witchcraft and just a few days ago the Government of America
honoring the spiritual Leader from Tibet, and a few weeks later forcing Israel
to return part of their Land against the Word and Will of God to the
Palestinians, once we understood what happened in Germany in the beginning of
the 20th century we should understand the Direction the Nation of
America and many others are 
taking in this hour ...! 
Look at then different sizes and shapes and colors of these 6 million paper clips, it can't be contained
in your imagination, if you try to imagine 6 millions Jewish people of all different
shapes and sizes laying there...
May the Lord use this Memorial in Tennessee to touch the youth in America and give them a clean Heart, open Eyes and Ears, why because the call Mordecai gave to Esther is as much relevant today then it was 2500 years ago.
I know that this message will challenge you like it does us! But it will be for the purpose that the living Water of the Holy Spirit can flow in and through our lives and it is our prayer for you today, that you can open your Heart and let the Holy Spirit circumcise your Heart and let His Water flow through you like a River! Shake up all Religion, like the Holy Spirit did to me the other day in the Hotel Room after visiting the Memorial at Whitwell where He started to shake me for a long time and make you ready for the Days to come, so we can be free to run, free to soar with Him, free to accomplish the calling and purposes He gave us!
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We all need to look at this Memorial,
and pray, pray, pray, pray, pray
that nothing like this
will ever happen again...
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You can see the ceiling in the boxcar untouched from that time...A reminder,
also the number from the death camps on the inside of the boxcar, protected by
Plexiglas...
May God bless you and may the Lord open a Fountain in your life today to give you to drink, refresh you and may He give you guidance and the provision you need! Also we would love to Thank the friends we just met at Whitwell and shared their pictures with us...Please go! I encourage you to go and see it for yourselves. It just might change you and your attitudes.
Shalom, Ueli & Charle' Surbeck
LivingFire Ministry
If you would like to see all 20 of the Whitwell pictures to share with friends just let us know and we will be glad to send them to you! Also please forward this article to all!