Not no persecution, but not persecution. Meaning, my thought was that the holocaust was Christian persecution, and not a prophecy fulfillment. Christians have always been persecuted and especially the Jews. It is written and always will be. Even if Christian may not go through the great trib, we will all still suffer persecution.
Seems like every war is thought to be the end. WWI, WWII, and so forth. I personally do not think that any of that was the fulfillment of any great prophecy, just merely persecution, though the term merely may seem a little...uh insensitive or inappropriate. I think I read that WWII took 1 out of 3 Jews. I believe that the great trib will take 2 out of 3 Jews. I forget exactly what it was that led me to that conclusion, but the conclusion stuck!
The great trib is said to be...a time of trouble that the world has never seen before, nor ever shall see again. I think that is a very significant statement and deeper than many realize. The world has seen a lot of very atrocious and heinous acts by mankind, but it will not compare to the great trib.
5 "For thus says the Lord: 'We have heard a voice of trembling, Of fear, and not of peace. 6 Ask now, and see, Whether a man is ever in labor with child? So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins Like a woman in labor, And all faces turned pale? 7 Alas! For that day is great, So that none is like it;
And it is the time of Jacob's trouble, But he shall be saved out of it. 8 'For it shall come to pass in that day,' Says the Lord of hosts, 'That I will break
his yoke from your neck, And will burst your bonds;
Foreigners shall no more enslave them. Jeremiah 30:5-7
Notice the phrase "his yoke", not their yoke. Hitler
The prophet Jeremiah observing Jewish men, women, and children walking compliantly to their death without attempting escape or retaliation. This was an inconceivable concept in Jeremiah’s day of a strong-willed, self-reliant, and militant people.
Jeremiah was not viewing twentieth century military activity against the State of Israel. Instead, he was looking into the grizzly gas chambers of Auschwitz. He heard the anguished cries and screams of terror at Treblinka. He watched his Diaspora brethren double over in pain as if in childbirth, at Dachau. He saw Jewish faces turn ashen and pale, due to the deadly Zyklon B gas as it filtered through the phony shower heads at Belsen. He saw that few would escape this incredible extermination.
Jeremiah uses the name Jacob (heal catcher) as a prophetic metaphor to represent the Diaspora (dispersed) Jew, as term to describe the proverbial wandering Jew, one living outside the Promised Land.
Today, The Jews are back into the land of Israel. This was not so during the Holocaust.
Jacob spent his last night in the Diaspora wrestling with an angel and prevailed. The angel “knighted” Jacob by changing his name to Israel before he crossed the Jabbok River to his “Promised Land.” (Genesis 32:24-32).
The key to understanding the enigma is to realize that his name was Jacob while he lived as a Diaspora Jew; but it was changed to Israel when he crossed the river to re-enter and settle his “Promised Land.”
Today's Jewish identities are likewise changed to Israel (Israeli) when they immigrate (make aliyah). This name change strongly suggests that “Jacob's trouble” was a foreshadow of the Holocaust struggle that happened to the European Diaspora Jew, prior to his entering the Promised Land. Most Israeli’s also have name changes when they move to Israel.
JLB
sorry reba i should have expanded/expounded that's how things get off track, i was thinking about Matthew 24:21 that great tribulation and it kinda sorta well you know
how quickly threads get off track... 
