Wednesday 14 December 2016

Misdaden tegen de menselijkheid alsof het niets is

Heden ten dage zijn er bepaalde mensen die er prat op gaan mensen vermoord te hebben en de maatschappij kijkt er naar en laat begaan terwijl er zelfs velen trots op die moordenaars zijn en hen zelfs verheerlijken.

Hoger geplaatsten, zoals de Filipijnse president Rodrigo Duterte die gezegd heeft dat hij eigenhandig criminelen heeft vermoord, beweren er mee een voorbeeld te stellen aan anderen, zoals de politie, die volgens hem te weinig doen tegen criminaliteit of terrorisme.

Met harde hand treedt Duterte hard op tegen de drugsoverlast in zijn land. Sinds zijn aantreden eind mei zijn er zeker 5.000 drugsdealers of mensen die al dan niet terecht beschuldigd worden van drugshandel en zelfs -gebruik omgebracht door doodseskaders.

Duterte die zelfs kinderen vanaf 9 jaar oud in de gevangenis wil kunnen steken, wordt beschuldigd van het schenden van mensenrechten, maar onder de Filipino's maakt hij zich er populair mee.

Ook president Assad is met zijn verschrikkelijk optreden tegen hen die zogezegd niet voor hem zijn, zeer populair bij zijn aanhangers. Bashar al-Assad die tot president werd gekozen in 2000 en werd herkozen met 'schertsvertoningen' in 2007 met 99,8 en in 2014 met 88,7 procent van de stemmen, laat al meerdere jaren barbaarse oorlogsmidaden uitvoeren over zijn eigen volk en dat van Iran en Irak.
Onder het mom van ISIS en terrroristen te bestrijden valt hij onschuldige mensen aan. Hij gebruikt gasbommen, bomvaten en clusterbommen of het niets is.

De VN heeft gezegd geloofwaardige berichten te hebben van tientallen burgers over verschrikkelijke wandaden die pro-regeringstroepen in de stad uitvoeren. Ook de televisiebeelden die wij te zien krijgen hier in het Westen spreken boekdelen. Soldaten die huizen binnen vallen of gewoon van op straat continue door inkomdeuren en ramen blijven schieten van gewone huizen, alsook kleine onschuldige kinderen doodschieten.

Via sociale media bereiken ons ook noodoproepen van gewone burgers die laten horen hoe zij als ratten in de vall zitten, belaagd door meerdere groepen die elkaar bestrijden maar zich ook richten op de bevolking die zich afzijdig wil houden en slachtoffer is van dit al meer dan vijf jaar aanslepende conflict.

De geciviliseerde wereld haar eerste opdracht zou moeten zijn om tegen die oorlogsmisdadigers fel op te treden en om steun te leveren aan de gewone burgerbevolking die buiten deze strijd wil staan en wier levens in gevaar komen.

Het is onvoldoende om steeds maar te horen dat de VN en de westerse mogendheden zouden gaan samenwerken met partners om te kijken welke stappen ze kunnen nemen om ervoor te zorgen dat mensen ter verantwoording worden geroepen voor hun daden daar. Al jaren weet men van vele oorlogsmisdaden maar zien wij dat er nog steeds niet opgetreden is tegen die criminelen.

Groot-Brittannië zal bij de Europese Unie (EU)-leiders tijdens een top op donderdag er op aandringen om een "sterke, duidelijke verklaring" over de noodzaak van humanitaire toegang en een wapenstilstand in Aleppo veilig te stellen.


Er moet hoogdringend een einde komen aan die verschrikking die de mensen in Syrië en Irak moeten mee maken. De gruwelijke beelden die telkens opduiken van de bombardementen die Syrische en Russische troepen hebben uitvoeren op Aleppo en andere steden kunnen niet telkens gefabriceerd zijn of zo maar propaganda materiaal van de tegenpartij zijn. Weer eens wijzen de onlangs geziene fragmenten dat het leger opnieuw chemische wapens gebruikt tegen de ingesloten burgers. Zelfs kinderen worden niet ontzien.

De dodelijke slachtoffers hebben brandwonden aan de neus en de mond, hun gezichten zijn blauw verkleurd en ook hun ogen dragen de sporen van gas. Bij een klein meisje is zelfs het haar verbrand door de chemicaliën.


De Duitse krant BILD checkte de echtheid van de beelden en het nieuws bij bronnen op het terrein.
"Net voor zonsopgang hebben helikopters van president Assad twee bommen op de wijk al-Sakhour gedropt en één ervan was gevuld met chloorgas",
 aldus een correspondent van het nieuwsagentschap ElDorar AlShamia.

Volgens bronnen in rebellenkringen worden conventionele explosieven gecombineerd met chemische bommen om de schade bij de slachtoffers nog groter te maken. 
 
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Wednesday 7 December 2016

Word of God presented to people in more than 3200 languages

Illustration of the distribution of Bibles in ...
Illustration of the distribution of Bibles in China up to 1908 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In 2016 a milestone was reached having the Word of God presented to people in more than 3200 languages.

At least 1.5 bil­lion peo­ple do not have the full Bible avail­able in their first lan­guage. Over 684 mil­lion of these have the New Tes­ta­ment; oth­ers have por­tions or at least some level of trans­la­tion or prepara­tory work begun.

There is known ac­tive trans­la­tion and/or lin­guis­tic de­vel­op­ment hap­pen­ing in 2400 lan­guages across more than 165 countries.

As of 1 Oc­to­ber 2016, a new method of iden­ti­fy­ing trans­la­tion need sug­gests over 160 mil­lion peo­ple, speak­ing 1700-1800 lan­guages, may need some form of Bible trans­la­tion to begin.

To­day ap­prox­i­mately 100 or­gan­i­sa­tions from more than 60 na­tions form the Wycliffe Global Al­liance. But also outside that alliance several groups, like the Bible students the Jehovah Witnesses and others are working at bible translations.

By pro­vid­ing staff, funds, train­ing, trans­la­tion and sup­port ser­vices, Al­liance or­gan­i­sa­tions are cur­rently in­volved in al­most 2000 of the 2422 lan­guages with ac­tive work.

Wycliffe Global Al­liance or­gan­i­sa­tions and per­son­nel have been in­volved in the trans­la­tion of Bibles and New Tes­ta­ments in more than 900 lan­guages. At least one of the Bible’s 66 books has been pub­lished in an ad­di­tional 600 lan­guages. Many other lan­guages have other ini­tial por­tions published.
Work­ing in com­mu­nity part­ner­ships, Al­liance per­son­nel not only as­sist in Scrip­ture-re­lated goals but also help pro­duce thou­sands of re­sources for lit­er­acy, ed­u­ca­tion, health and other com­mu­nity-based ob­jec­tives along­side Scripture.

An ever in­creas­ing num­ber of Scrip­ture prod­ucts are now in dig­i­tal for­mats as text, au­dio and video. These are of­ten avail­able on web­sites, so­cial me­dia or through a va­ri­ety of phone apps, as well as in for­mats that can be eas­ily shared phone-to-phone in places with lim­ited internet.

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Find also to read:

  1. Written and translated by different men over thousands of years
  2. Bible Translating and Concordance Making
  3. Looking at notes of Samuel Ward and previous Bible translation efforts in English
  4. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #1 Pre King James Bible
  5. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #2 King James Bible versions
  6. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #3 Women and versions
  7. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #4 Steps to the women’s bibles
  8. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #5 Further steps to women’s bibles
  9. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #6 Revisions of revisions
  10. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #7 Jewish versions
  11. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #8 Selective Bibles and selective people
  12. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #9 Restored names and Sacred Name Bibles
  13. Old and newer King James Versions and other translations #10 Journaling Bibles and illustrative women
  14. Missed opportunity for North Korea
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Verkleining tropische regenwouden gevaar voor volksgezondheid

De wijze waarop de mens omspringt met de natuur zou zich wel eens als een boemerang tegen de mens kunnen keren.

Ongehoord blijven op winstbejag beluste mensen houtkap verwezenlijken om met het hout goed te verdienen en/of om landbouwgebieden uit te breiden. Hierdoor verdwijnen er echter grote delen van de   tropische regenwouden. Elk jaar wordt de oppervlakte aan tropische regenwouden kleiner.
Het gevolg hiervan?

Bepaalde levensreddende medicijnen kunnen daardoor ook verdwijnen. Taxol bijvoorbeeld, een middel tegen kanker dat wordt gemaakt uit de zaden van een naaldboom die in het regenwoud voorkomt. Volgens een rapport van het International Journal of Climatology verdwijnt tussen nu en 2055 een derde tot bijna de helft van het tropische regenwoud, als de ontbossing in het huidige tempo doorgaat.


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Monday 28 November 2016

HalleluYah Scriptures Children’s Book

The first printing of the HalleluYah Scriptures Children’s Book was printed in English and the project distributed thousands of these to share with families all over the world.

The organisation behind HalleluYah Scriptures Children’s Book felt a burden to print in the Filipino language for the very poor and needy who would not know about the Creator and His Son and what They have done for them. This edition is very popular in the Philippines and many children and families have a copy to enjoy.
They have been able to send a large shipment of this special book to the Philippines and many believers in this country have taken this book and share from it and read from it. The Children’s Book and Movie, like the standard HalleluYah Scriptures, is free to the poor and needy who cannot afford, supported by those who can afford.

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Read more about it:

HalleluYah Scriptures Children’s Book Loved All Over The World

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Help needed for Chinese HalleluYah Scriptures

The King James Bible Only people are convinced their English bible is the only true bible and that God has chosen English as the language to bring His word to the World.

Those English King James bible lovers often forget they themselves do not use the original Authorised King James version though they say that is the only one true bible translation everybody has to follow.

Many are not aware that Chinese language is the number one spoken language in the world with English only coming in 4th in the world. The translators of the Restored Name Bible Version HalleluYah Scriptures therefore do want to bring out a Chinese translation. At the moment they are working on getting other materials into Chinese, like the cards of hope, bookmarks, Children’s Book and the movie with subtitles in Chinese HalleluYah.

They are looking for people who can help.
If you cannot afford to help, we ask that you join us in praying for this sister and this project needs the prayer to rebuke the enemy away from this project and the work that is about to start in this country. Prayer is worth so much and we cannot buy prayer!
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HalleluYah Scriptures China-miracle urgent help needed

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Thursday 24 November 2016

2016 Thanksgiving and politics

English: Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1835 – 1890)
English: Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1835 – 1890) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In 2016 Thanksgiving day should not only be a day for saying thanks for everything we get, but should also be a day when we contemplate and seriously think about the way how we are showing are thankfulness to god to others in the world.

New Jersey Congressman, president of the Continental Congress, director of the U.S. Mint and American Bible Society's first president Elias Boudinot is one of the forgotten founding fathers of the New World. In part Americans should be thankful also to him for having that American national holiday Thanksgiving.

Rooted in a passion for God's Word Elias Boudinot declared before the U.S. House of Representatives that prayer and thanks were due to God for America's existence. According to the Annals of Congress, Boudinot stated that he
"could not think of letting the session pass over without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings he had poured down upon them."
Although many members of the House dismissed his proposal, Boudinot stuck by it. Almost two weeks later, President George Washington warmed to the idea.
On October 3, 1789, Washington distributed a Thanksgiving Proclamation to the Governors of the States, calling for the
 "institution of a national day of prayer and thanksgiving"
 and for
"Thursday, the 26th day of November…to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."
In Scriptures thankfulness is prominent and rabbi Jeshua asked his followers to show their gratitude to the Most High Divine Creator. One way of showing such gratitude was by not being afraid to use the Almighty God His Divine Name (Jehovah) and by letting the world know how God wants them to come close to Him and recognise Him as their heavenly Father.

Jesus asked to
"live in union with him…build your lives on him…and be filled with thanksgiving" (Colossians 2:7). Thanksgiving should accompany "everything you do and say" (Colossians 3:17).
Though we may find it sometimes very difficult to live in this world, the Apostle Paul asked us to
"Be joyful always, pray at all times, be thankful in all circumstances" (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18).
Yes, in all circumstances ... also in times when we do have it not easy, or when we do have much pain. Being troubled with certain illnesses can bring lots of pains to endure every day. Do know in the Word of God, the bible you may find strength and you shall be able to find the strength to conquer that pain.

Living in this world, not being of it, we also should feel thankfulness not just as one of multiple good qualities that believers should have, but a core impulse of human worship. In Romans 1, where Paul describes the depravity of the Gentiles, he first establishes the idea that God's nature can be seen in creation, and so humans have no excuse.
"They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him" (Romans 1:21).
Today lots of people do not give honour to the Divine Creator, and do not want to know about The God of gods.

Do you know Him? Do you give Him the full respect?

God has blessed us with all the things around us and with the life we do have. We should know He provided the Way to Him, by means of His only begotten beloved son, who was willing to offer himself for us. How much do we want to give to God? Are we willing to do His Will, like Jesus did His Will? Are we willing to recognize His grace and to respond with a thank-You?

Do we want to show our thankfulness to God in the way we live and in the way we go about with others? Are you as such aware that your sayings, your way of voting or choosing for some one, shows your attitude to life but also your attitude to the universe of the Divine Creator.

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Additional reading

  1. Words of God to stand and to be followed and to believe
  2. A Start for looking at the unseen and the treasure to look forward to
  3. True God giving His Word for getting wisdom
  4. Being thankful
  5. As Christ’s slaves doing the Will of God in gratitude
  6. Be vigilant with a view to prayers
  7. Be sound in mind and be vigilant with a view to prayers
  8. Praying and acts of meditation without ceasing
  9. Give thanks to יהוה! For He is good, For His kindness is everlasting
  10. Praise and give thanks to God the Most Highest
  11. Let them thank the Lord for …
  12. Give thanks to the One Who gave much
  13. Give Thanks To God
  14. Thanksgiving wisdom: Why gratitude is good for your health
  15. By counting our blessings we not only feel good, but we multiply our good
  16. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #5 Prayer #1 Listening Sovereign Maker
  17. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #8 Prayer #6 Communication and manifestation
  18. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #10 Prayer #8 Condition
  19. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
  20. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #16 Benefits of praying
  21. Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
  22. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name
  23. Bring praise to the Creator
  24. Praise Jehovah, ​You people
  25. A Meaningful Thanksgivukkah
  26. Hanukkahgiving or Thanksgivvukah
  27. A Meaningful Thanksgivukkah
  28. Thanksgivukkah and Advent
  29. Continuing Paul’s Prayer Requests
  30. My God
  31. The Proper Place of Excess
  32. Stopped Breathing
  33. Give your worries to God
  34. Only the contrite self, sick of its pretensions, can find salvation
  35. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone!
  36. If your difficulties are longstanding, try kneeling
  37. Life in gratitude opens glory of God
  38. A Living Faith #6 Sacrifice
  39. A gift of 86,400 seconds
  40. Thanking God by thinking of people

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