03/06/2025 – “Therefore the wicked will not survive the judgment, and sinners will not be in the community of the righteous. For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.” (Psalm 1: 5-6) /Commentary below:

The Trees Of The Righteous

Friday, March 6, 2026

Yad Vashem is the Holocaust memorial in Israel. Outside of it is a beautiful path of trees called, “The Avenue of the righteous of the Nations.” Every tree is named after a Gentile who saved Jewish lives in the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, those who did evil were in power, and seemed like the unstoppable wave of the future. Those who did righteously, who hid Jews and risked their lives, were in the minority. Their cause looked hopeless yet, in the end, those in power ended up in defeat; being killed, taking their own lives, or living as hunted fugitives with the shame of what they did forever. But those who did right yet seemed weak ended up as heroes. No matter how powerful evil looks, or how unstoppable it may seem even as immorality seems to be the wave of the future, still in the end evil will perish. And no matter how weak the cause of the righteous seems, you who do right will be lifted up. The righteous will shine as the stars of heaven. And in heaven all these trees will blossom in the avenue of the righteous.

From Message #1019 – The Samaritan’s Choice 
Scripture: Psalm 1:5-6

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From my Apologetics Study Bible, footnote commentary on these verses:

“1.5. The word “translated “righteous” in the OT (tsaddiq) refers to a member of the covenant who seeks to live righteously; it is a description of the true believer. The righteous are not sinless, but they seek to maintain a right relationship with the Lord.”

“1.6. “Watches over (Hebrew yodea “knows”). has the force of “saves” or “delivers”, because it expresses the opposite of the “ruin” in the parallel half of the verse (see also Exodus 2:25). Jesus will say to the unbelievers, Jesus will say to the unbelievers, “I never knew you (Matthew 7:23). If the Lord “knows” the way of the righteous, they will protected from the judgment (Psalm 37: 12-17, 28-29).

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Soli Deo Gloria!