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The Vatican Announces It Will Open Its Archive On Pope Pius XII Who Allowed Nazi Germany To Kill Millions Of Jews And Did Nothing To Stop It

Scholars around the world are waiting for March 2, when after decades of requests, the Vatican will open its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII.

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Scholars throughout the world are waiting for March 2, when after decades of requests, the Vatican will open its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII.

Aren’t you glad that, as a regular reader of NTEB, you know the truth well in advance of the mainstream media who may or may not decide to give it to you? We told you last year how Pope Pius XII worked to enable Adolf Hitler to carry out his demonic plan to kill the entire race of Jews in Europe. Not only that, Pope Pius XII also allowed Hitler to get rid of Germany’s Roman Catholic population as well. Hey Roman Catholics, how about them apples? Still think the pope, any pope, is the ‘vicar of Christ’?

“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:3-5 (KJB)

The big con that the Vatican is currently trying to pull off is admitting yes, there have been abuses in the past but that’s not happening today. They are willing to admit to a little bit of ‘ecclesiastical transgression’ but that’s all in the past, so it doesn’t really matter. Flash-forward to 2020 where you have Pope Francis lying and covering up for pedophile priests while blessing the pagan Catholics in the Amazon and rubber stamping his approval on Gaia worship. Not only that, he changed the name of the Holy See Vatican Secret Archive to make its connection with the Nazis harder to spot.

That Pope Francis is a busy little bee, and when the Vatican releases the Pope Pius XII documents on March 2, I expect he’s only going to get busier.

The Vatican will open its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII and his refusal to help save the Jews

FROM THE JERUSALEM POST: For his critics, Pope Pius XII is a figure who repeatedly failed to take a strong stance against Hitler or in favor of the Jews. For his defenders, he was a spiritual leader who did his best to work silently to protect the Roman Catholic and to allow its representatives to operate in secret to help those in need.

The pope’s role vis-à-vis the Nazi and fascist regimes, and the extermination of Jews, have been at the center of many disputes over the years. These disputes have often transcended the borders of historical research.

Considering that some of the documents were previously made accessible, it remains to be seen whether the Vatican’s decision will help solve the controversy.

“I believe that the opening of the archive is a symbolic gesture, I doubt that it will bring significant changes to what is known,” Prof. Manuela Consonni, chair of Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, told The Jerusalem Post. “I’m not saying that nothing interesting will come out of it,” she said. “I think we will find documents that will support better what we know about him.”

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HOW POPE PIUS XII AND THE VATICAN HELPED ADOLF HITLER AND THE NAZIS TO NEARLY REALIZE THEIR GOAL OF A ‘FINAL SOLUTION’ FOR EUROPE’S JEWS

Consonni said part of the reason the church did not take a stronger stance against Nazism and fascism was that it felt more affinity with those regimes than with communism, which it considered a greater danger.

“I do not believe that Pius XII wanted the Jews to be annihilated,” she said. “He was silent because he was indifferent, because he was not so interested. Even if scholars were to discover that he secretly did more than what we know so far, this doesn’t change the situation: As pope, he should have raised his voice publicly. It was his moral duty.”

Iael Nidam-Orvieto, director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, expressed satisfaction regarding the possibilities offered to researchers by the opening of the archives.

“All the research that has been carried out on Pius XII so far has been based on very limited documents, while historians did not have access to the main bulk of material,” she told the Post. “Therefore, we can say that our insight on such a controversial topic has been only partial. For this reason, I believe that this is a very important step.”

Nidam-Orvieto said it is going to take many years to reach a fuller picture. “Research is a long process,” she said. “We will have to wait and see. I also believe, like many others, that we are not going to find any revolutionary document,” she said. “I don’t think that history is made through such things, but instead through vast bulks of material that enable better understandings.”

The archives will allow historians to shed new light on issues such as the pope’s policies and strategies, Nidam-Orvieto said, and also his relationship with religious orders and emissaries in different countries and the situation in those countries.

“All of these topics are crucial, and new questions will be opened as well,” she said. “Pius XII is a controversial figure, and this is not going to disappear. But we are going to be much more knowledgeable.”

The question of how the pope acted during the Holocaust is not only important to scholars.

On October 16, 1943, the Nazis raided the Jewish neighborhood in Rome and arrested more than 1,000 people. Many hoped Pius XII might intervene in favor of the local Jews to prevent their deportation. He did not. That is why for Rome’s Jews, who still live and thrive around the same square where their parents and grandparents were rounded up, this is not only a matter of historical research, Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni told the Post.

“The Jews of Rome lived under the rule of the pope for centuries,” he said. “They got rid of it in 1870. But there was always a very peculiar relationship, which reached its dramatic culmination under the Nazi occupation.” Another 1,000 Jews were arrested in the months following the October 16 raid, he added.

“Over 2,000 people were deported from Rome, and, as it is well-known, the Vatican never protested,” Di Segni said. “At the same time, monasteries and convents opened their doors to Jews. The church’s behavior was ambiguous. This has caused very strong reactions among Roman Jews, leaving aside the question of what the pope did or failed to do during the Holocaust in general.” Di Segni portrayed Pius XII as a “gray” figure.

“There are those who want to make him a saint and those who consider him a completely negative figure,” he said. “I think that his personality and story are very controversial, and gray is therefore the most suited color to describe him.”

However, Di Segni said a less discussed aspect of the pontificate of Pius XII has proven to be far more clear-cut: the pope’s attitude toward the Jewish people after the war and until his death in 1958, a period from which documents are also going to be made public by the Vatican.

“The problems around Pius XII did not end with the war,” he told the Post. “Afterwards, he acted in a way that revealed very little sympathy, if not hostility, towards the Jewish people in many circumstances. He did not allow the restitution of baptized Jewish children who had been hidden in convents, did not show any support for the foundation of the State of Israel, was not receptive to those in the church who were reconsidering the teaching of contempt against the Jews, nor to the idea of abolishing the expression ‘evil Jews’ from the liturgy.” READ MORE

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NTEB RADIO BIBLE STUDY: The Day Of The Lord And The Time Of Jacob’s Trouble Explained

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March 29, 2026

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The Day of Christ and the Day of the Lord could not be more different, one shows you the Pretrib Rapture and the other Jacob’s Trouble

There is a reason why lost men mock Bible prophecy, and there is a reason why lukewarm Christians avoid preaching on the Day of the Lord. It is because the Day of the Lord strips away every refuge of lies, every fake peace plan, every apostate sermon, and every smooth-talking promise that man is going to fix this world and bring in some shining golden age. He is not. This world is not evolving upward, it is collapsing downward, and the Day of the Lord is God’s appointed answer to the rebellion of men and nations.

“Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.” Isaiah 13:6

On this episode of Rightly Dividing, for nearly 2,000 years in the Church Age, God has been extending mercy through the preaching of the gospel of the grace of God. He has been saving sinners by the blood of Jesus Christ, building the Body of Christ, and making a way of escape for anyone willing to come to Calvary. But mercy rejected does not mean judgment canceled. It means judgment delayed. And one day that delay ends. The Day of the Lord is that day. It is the day when the proud are brought low, when the nations are shaken, when the false christ, the false prophet, and the whole satanic system that has seduced the world are dragged into the blazing light of divine justice. Men today swagger across television screens and political stages as if they own tomorrow. They do not own the next breath in their lungs. The Day of the Lord is coming, and when it comes, every king, every banker, every general, every media propagandist, every Christ-rejecting celebrity, and every religious fraud will discover that God was not bluffing. Last week, we gave you the rundown on the Day of Christ and the Pretrib Rapture, tonight we give you everything you need to know about the Day of the Lord and the time of Jacob’s trouble.

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THE BIBLE BELIEVERS SUNDAY SERVICE: Don’t Look Back!

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March 29, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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Stop Longing For What Once Enslaved You And Start Rejoicing In Where God Is Taking You, Don’t Look Back!

The Bible is a Book that moves forward, not backwards. It was first written in Aramaic, then Hebrew, then in Greek and put into Old Syriac, Old Latin, Old German and finally in Old English. God pulls us forward into the light, Satan lurks in the shadows behind us, looking back puts us in the ring with the Devil. Staying there too long and we become bruised and bloodied in the battle. Today my message is ‘Don’t Look Back!’, and it’s a call to putting our eyes on Jesus Christ as He moves us forward here in these last days.

“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:13-14 (KJB)

SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: Don’t Look Back!

Don’t Look Back!

1). Looking Back Shows a Divided Heart

Main Text

“Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” Genesis 19:26 (KJB)

Truth

Lot’s wife left Sodom with her body, but her heart was still tied to what God was judging. Looking back revealed inward attachment to a condemned world.

Application

A Christian can be outwardly separated and yet inwardly longing for the old life. God wants not just our feet moving forward, but our heart moving forward as well.

2). Looking Back Is Dangerous When God Has Called You Out

Main Text

“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.” Genesis 19:17 (KJB)

Truth

The command not to look back was connected to survival. Sodom was under judgment, and hesitation in a place of judgment was deadly.

Application

When God delivers you from sin, worldliness, false religion, or compromise, you are not to linger over what He has called you to leave behind.

3). Looking Back Makes You Unfit for Effective Service

Main Text

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62 (KJB)

Truth

A ploughman looking backward cannot plough a straight row. A backward glance in the Christian life destroys focus, direction, and usefulness.

Application

You cannot serve the Lord well while constantly longing for yesterday, revisiting old sins, old loves, old ambitions, or old defeats.

4). Looking Back Hinders Forward Growth

Main Text

Truth

Paul teaches that spiritual progress requires forgetting the things behind and reaching toward the things ahead. The Christian life is a forward walk.

Application

Looking back at past failures can paralyze you. Looking back at past victories can puff you up. Either way, looking back keeps you from pressing toward the mark.

5). Looking Back Can Mean Longing for the Old Life of Bondage

Main Text

“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Exodus 16:3 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:” Numbers 11:5 (KJB)

Truth

Israel kept looking back to Egypt, forgetting the bondage and remembering only the pleasures. This is what the flesh does. It edits the memory and romanticizes what enslaved us.

Application

Many Christians do the same with the old life. They forget the chains and remember only the passing pleasures of sin.

6). Looking Back Reveals Unbelief in God’s Future Provision

Main Text

“And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Hebrews 11:15-16 (KJB)

Truth

The saints in Hebrews 11 did not keep their minds fixed on what they left. They looked for something better ahead. Faith looks forward.

Application

To keep looking back is often a sign that we doubt God has something better before us than what lies behind us.

7). Looking Back Can Pull You Back Into Defilement

Main Text

“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” 2 Peter 2:20-22 (KJB)

Truth

Looking back often leads to turning back. What begins with a glance can end in entanglement.

Application

The Christian must guard his mind, affections, and desires, because the backward look can become a backward step.

8). Looking Back Distracts Us From Christ

Main Text

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJB)

Truth

The Christian race is not run by looking backward, inward, or sideways, but by looking unto Jesus.

Application

When your eyes leave Christ and drift back toward the world, the flesh, regret, bitterness, or nostalgia, your race will suffer.

9). Looking Back Keeps Old Things Alive That God Has Put Away

Main Text

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King. Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:15-19 (KJB)

Truth

God has made the believer a new creature in Christ. Constant backward living keeps old things on life support that God says are passed away.

Application

Stop building memorials to what God has already buried.

10). Looking Back Is the Opposite of Hope

Main Text

“Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.” Proverbs 4:25 (KJB)

Supporting Text

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 (KJB)

Truth

The Christian life is built on hope, expectation, and forward vision. We are not camped in the ruins of the past. We are heading toward Jesus Christ, the judgment seat of Christ, and home.

Application

A backward Christian is usually a discouraged Christian. A forward-looking Christian is a hopeful Christian.

Practical Areas Where Christians Look Back

Past sins

The devil wants you chained to forgiven things.

Past wounds

Bitterness keeps your face turned toward old pain instead of future grace.

Past successes

Living on yesterday’s victories produces present-day barrenness.

Former worldly pleasures

The flesh loves to make Egypt look better than it was.

Old relationships and attachments

What God removed from your life does not need to be resurrected.

What Happens When We Stop Looking Back

We walk by faith

2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJB) “(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)”

We grow in maturity

Forward motion is the mark of spiritual health.

We become useful to God

A fixed eye makes a straight furrow.

We gain victory over the flesh

Forward focus weakens backward cravings.

We finish well

The Christian life is not about how you started, but how you finish.

“But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24 (KJB)

Closing Challenge

Lot’s wife looked back and died in judgment.
Israel looked back and wandered in defeat.
Paul refused to look back and pressed toward the prize.

The lesson is plain: what God has called you out of is not worth turning around to admire. The world behind you is under judgment, but the glory ahead of you is in Jesus Christ. Keep your eyes forward.

“Remember Lot’s wife.” Luke 17:32 (KJB)

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A Combined Drone And Missile Attack From Iran Incredibly Pierced American Air Defenses Resulting In 12 US Troops Wounded And 2 Possibly Dead

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2 days ago

March 28, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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While Trump Says The War Is Going Well, 12 American Troops Are Wounded In Saudi Arabia By Iran Strike As Middle East Burns Hotter Still

There is a very hard, very uncomfortable truth staring America in the face tonight, and no amount of White House spin can make it go away. If the war is “going well,” then why are American troops bleeding on a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia? On Friday, March 27, 2026, an Iranian strike on Prince Sultan Air Base wounded 12 U.S. service members, with 2 seriously injured, and also damaged American aircraft. That is not the picture of a war moving smoothly toward some neat and orderly conclusion. That is the picture of a widening conflict that is still very much alive and still very, very dangerous.

“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” Matthew 24:7,8 (KJB)

And this stands in stark opposition to the way President Trump has been talking about the war. Publicly, Trump has projected confidence, declaring Iran “obliterated,” while his administration has pushed the line that Tehran’s military capability has been badly crippled. At the same time, Trump has also said negotiations are “going very well,” presenting the conflict as though it is being steadily brought under control. But the missiles falling on American forces tell another story entirely.

Let’s say it plainly: you do not measure victory by press statements; you measure it by realities on the ground. And the reality on the ground is that Iran still has enough reach, enough hardware, and enough operational capability to strike a major American installation in Saudi Arabia and put U.S. troops in the hospital. The Washington Post reported that even after extensive U.S.-Israeli strikes, Iran still retains a potent arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones. That means the administration’s narrative of decisive control is colliding head-on with battlefield reality.

This was also not some isolated fluke. Prince Sultan Air Base had already been struck earlier in the conflict, including a March 1 attack that later resulted in the death of Army Sgt. Benjamin N. Pennington. So what we are looking at is not a one-off embarrassment, but a pattern. The base remains vulnerable, and American personnel remain exposed. That matters, because every time officials suggest the threat is fading, another strike reminds everyone that the enemy still has teeth.

That is why the messaging coming out of Washington rings hollow. If Trump says the war is going well, and if administration officials say Iran has been neutralized, then how exactly do we explain more wounded Americans, damaged aircraft, expanding regional attacks, and now even broader instability involving actors like the Houthis? You cannot call it under control while the war keeps spilling into new theaters and fresh casualties keep piling up. We are being lied to on a daily basis, and it is time for the American people to rise up and demand accountability from our elected leaders before it’s too late.

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