title: Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo Christian Worldview in the Holocaust
author: Mr. R. Mark Musser
description: In 1989, Mark Musser graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, one of the premier environmental institutions in the country. In 1994, Mark graduated from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon with a Master of Divinity with a special emphasis upon New Testament Greek. Mark is married to Caren. They have three children  Rachel, Alex, and Paul. Mark and his family were missionaries to the former Soviet Union for 7 years. He is now a pastor in Olympia, Washington. Mark was also employed by the Building Industry Association of Washington in Olympia as a Stormwater Field Representative between 2005-2010 where he worked on environmental policy and stormwater education. Mark continues to work on the mission field in the former Soviet Union as a Bible college professor working with James F. Myers Ministries, and is also an adjunct professor for Chafer Theological Seminary. He is further actively involved with Discipleship Makers Multiplied (DM2) both locally at home and abroad. Mark is a contributing author for the American Thinker, and has written a number of articles for other national websites. Mark is a conference speaker, and writes for the Cornwall Alliance, which is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. Mark is also the author of Wrath or Rest: Saints in the Hands of an Angry God, which is a theological primer/commentary focusing on the difficult warning passages found in the book of Hebrews.
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  Nazi Oaks
  
  
  The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Nuremberg Rally Stadium was modeled after the pagan Altar of Pergamum that
  German archaeologists excavated from Turkey. When they began the excavation in
  1878, the altar was embedded in a grove of oaks. The Greek god Zeus was
  otherwise known as the god of the oaks. In Revelation 2:13, the phrase
  “Satan’s throne” is most probably a reference to the Altar of Pergamum (Photo
  Credit: bpk, Berlin, Karl Kolb 1938, Art Resource, New York).
  
  
  
  
  
  By R. Mark Musser
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover Photo – the Nazi Oak that stands just inside the gated entrance of
  Auschwitz behind the infamous sign which reads, “Work makes you free.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nazi Oaks by R. Mark Musser, M. Div.
  
  
  Copyright © 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 R. Mark Musser
  
  
  All Rights Reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Mark