Short film based on the poem by Corrie ten Boom, which she often recited to audiences.
My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned
He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.
Shot, edited and directed by Brian Reed
Additional photography by Daniel Kandel
Music by Chris Zabriskie
The Infographics Show: “What exactly is Scandinavia? The countries of Scandinavia are Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We might also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula, or Fennoscandia, which also comprises Finland and parts of Russia. Moreover, we talk about Nordic countries, and these include Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands. But today we are talking about three countries alone, and they are Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The countries have similar customs and cultures, and the languages are not far apart. The EU tells us the citizens of all these countries will likely be able to read each other’s language, although Swedes and Norwegians can have trouble understanding spoken Danish, even though the Danish and Norwegian languages are the most similar. Now, let’s look at what would happen if those countries finally came together, in this episode of the Infographics Show, What if Scandinavia United?
Als ge van ze leven in de westhoek passeert
Deur regen en noorderwinden
Keert onze den tijd als g’ alhier passeert
Den oorlog ga j’ hier were vinden
Ja ‘t is den oorlog da ‘j hier were vindt
En ‘t graf van duizend soldaten
Altijd iemands vader altijd iemands kind
Nu doodstil en godverlaten
Laat de bomen nu maar zwijgen en dat ‘t gras niets verteld
En de wind moet ‘t ook maar nie zingen
Dat julder’n dood tot niets hè geteld
Dat waren al te schik’lijke dingen
Zeg ‘t gaat al goed der is welvaart in ‘t land
En de vrede ligt vast in de wetten
We maken wel wapens maar met veel meer verstand
Maar just om den oorlog te beletten
En grote raketten atoom in den top
We meugen toch experimenteren
We mikken wel ne keer naar mekaar zijne kop
Maar just om ons ‘t amuseren
Als ge van ze leven in de westhoek passeert
Deur regen en noorderwinden
Keert omme den tijd als g’ alhier passeert
Den oorlog ga j’ hier were vinden
Ja ‘t is den oorlog da ‘j hier were vindt
En ‘t graf van duizend soldaten
Altijd iemands vader altijd iemands kind
Duizend en duizend soldaten
De laatste versie van een verfilming die Jean-Pierre Peysmans heeft gemaakt in 2005 van het zeer mooie liedje ”1000 Soldaten” van Willem Vermandere. De Westhoek en de oorlog 14/18.
Video productie: JP Peysmans (www.spf-production.be)
Overal in de Vlaamse regio in België en Frankrijk de Westhoek zijn nog altijd sporen te vinden van een oorlog die men dacht dat het de laatste zou zijn, omdat zijn gruwel niet te evenaren zou zijn. Daarvoor was in de 16de eeuw na de Beeldenstorm de plaatselijke bevolking al erg uitgedund. Pas in de 18e eeuw kon men terug het bevolkingsaantal op het niveau van voor 1566 zien. Maar op op 21 oktober1914 begon met de Eerste Slag om Ieper een man tot man gevecht van een heel andere orde dan die veldslagen die vroeger op de Vlaamse velden regelmatig werden uitgevochten. De Westhoek werd een plaats waar ongehoord duizenden hun leven zouden achter laten. Men kan er nu honderden grote en kleine zowel Belgische, Britse, Franse als Duitse begraafplaatsen vinden die het West-Vlaamse landschap tekenen als eerbetoon aan de gesneuvelden in de Grote Oorlog.
Maar al snel na WO I stond de volgende wereldoorlog al klaar. Toen dacht men echt dat men er voor kon zorgen dat er geen staten meer tegen elkaar zouden gaan vechten en daarbij andere landen zouden betrekken zodat er een derde wereldoorlog zou uitbreken.
Al in 2013 toen men demonstraties op het Majdan Nezalezjnosti, ook bekend als het Onafhankelijkheidsplein in Kyiv (Kiev), kon zien, kwam met dat begin van Euromaidan ook een onrustiger gevoelen naar voor in West Europa. Men voelde het in Europa warmer worden. Na jaren van schijnbare vrede bleek de Koude Oorlog terug voor de deur te staan al dacht men dat het bij het vallen van de Berlijnse Muur in 1989 gedaan zou zijn. De landen leken dichter naar elkaar te groeien en een mengelmoes van volkeren te worden, dat in zekere vorm een grotere eenheid zou hebben kunnen mee brengen. Men hoopte dat de globalisatie zou bijdragen tot een vermenging van culturen maar ook voor een meer openstaan naar andere culturen en bevolkingsgroepen.
Muurschildering ten voorkeur van de volksraadpleging in Catalonië in 2013 en het referendum in 2014
Op 22 februari 2014 werd nadat president Viktor Janoekovytsj van Kyiv naar Charkov was gevlucht, door het Oekraïense parlement ingestemd met het afzetten van de president en organisatie van presidentsverkiezingen op 25 mei 2014. Daar en dan kan men stellen werd het zaad in de grond gestoken voor datgene wat Europa vandaag over komt.
De Russen waren helemaal niet tevreden met de Oekraïense presidentsverkiezingen en was maar al te blij en berijd in te stemmen met de protesten in de oostelijke en zuidelijke delen van Oekraïne, die resulteerden in de afscheiding van de Oost-Oekraïense oblasten Donetsk en Loehansk waarbij de opstandelingen de volksrepubliek Donetsk en volksrepubliek Loehansk uitriepen, om net als de Krim een deel van Rusland te worden. Maar de overige gebieden in de Donbas bleven onder het gezag van het Oekraïense leger, om tot een 8 jaar durend kat en muisspel te resulteren.
De leiders van Wit-Rusland, Rusland, Duitsland, Frankrijk en Oekraïne op de vergadering op 11 en 12 februari 2015 in Minsk, Wit-Rusland
Na de Minsk akkoorden leek het wat stiller geworden tot het afgesproken staakt-het-vuren door de Russische president Vladimir Poetin verbroken werd met zijn uitroep dat Rusland de zelfverklaarde volksrepublieken Donetsk en Loehansk erkende, inclusief hun claims op het gehele grondgebied van respectievelijk oblast Donetsk en oblast Loehansk.
Ook al beweerde Poetin lange tijd dat hij Oakraïne niet zou binnenvallen, deed hij dat na het einde van het eerste deel van de 24ste Olympische Winterspelen toch.
Met zijn inval in Oekraïne beweerde Poetin een vredesmissie aan te gaan, maar meer en meer kan duidelijk gezien worden dat die Russische dictator totaal niets met een mensenleven inzit en alles op alles wil zetten om Oekraïne bij zijn land in te lijven. Hiervoor haalt hij zelfs door internationale verdragen verboden wapens boven om deze tegen weerloze burgers in te zetten. Scholen, kinderparken, kraamklinieken en burgerhospitalen worden beschoten en zo totaal verwoest. Ook de vele prachtige monumenten moeten er aan geloven terwijl het Russisch leger een waar slagveld maakt van een land dat 44,32 miljoen inwoners had, waarvan er vermoedelijk nu al 2 miljoen (vrouwen met hun kinderen) naar het Westen zijn gevlucht.
Het lijkt er op dat de Russische invasie ingezet op 24 februari 2022 weer een verschrikkelijke oorlog over Europa heen brengt.
Hij en zijn liederen zijn verbonden met Bachten de Kupe dat nog steeds gekenmerkt wordt door zijn oorlogsverleden, namelijk een van de bloedigste frontstreken van de Eerste Wereldoorlog, 1914-1918, iets wat nog altijd te zien is aan de vele oorlogskerkhoven van beide kampen.
De relaties tussen Rusland en het Westen zijn nu helemaal verzuurd geraakt en door zijn grove leugens eind vorig jaar en begin dit jaar, voor de inval in Oekraïne is het vertrouwen in Poetin helemaal geschonden en sis hij nu voor velen een onbetrouwbaar persoon die zich ook niet aan zijn afspraken houdt.
Die onberekenbaarheid en de drieste wijze waarop het Russisch leger de gebieden van Oekraïne wenst te veroveren kunnen ons enkel doen bidden voor die mensen die daar al dat leed moeten ondergaan terwijl de rest van de wereld eigenlijk niet kan ingrijpen omdat wij anders werkelijk in de derde wereld oorlog zullen beland zijn.
Terwijl het gure weer ginder aan houdt moeten duizenden in metrostations en bunkers schuilen zonder verwarming en zonder de nodige voeding en medicijnen.
Vele bomen zijn daar al gesneuveld terwijl de wapens voort gaan om nog meer te vernielen. Wij zien zelfs tanks zomaar over wagens, met mensen er in, rijden of het niets is. Men kan zich afvragen waar het gevoelen is van die legervoertuigen die gaten in woonblokken schieten en hospitalen bombarderen terwijl zij de verwonde mensen er zien uit vluchten. Waar is hun menselijke ziel en gevoelen?
Hebben zij hun innerlijke stem het zwijgen opgelegd? Of zijn ze doof geworden voor enig menselijk gevoel en besef?
In welke mate beseffen de Russische dienstplichtigen dat zij gewoon als kanonnenvoer worden gebruikt door hun Russische heerser? Hoe lang gaan zij hun verstand op ‘nul’ zetten en voort gaan met deze dwaasheid die zo veel mensenlevens kost?
Of willen zij met hun leider mee zingen
grote raketten atoom in den top
We meugen toch experimenteren
We mikken wel ne keer naar mekaar zijne kop
Maar just om ons ‘t amuseren
In ieder geval is nu al duidelijk dat wij in een “Woeste Waanzin” zijn beland.
Duizend soldaten
Liedje van Willem Vermandere (Vind de tekst op de volgende posting)
We must not forget that it is often the leaders of a country who use the inhabitants only as cannon fodder. Even when RussiainvadedUkraine, there were Russian conscripts who thought they were going to a training camp and would certainly not have to fight against their blood brothers.
Along both sides of the fighting parties, parents will not see their children alive again. At both camps, there were casualties for no gain. War always involves loss of life and is always a regrettable fact that would have been best avoided.
English translation below / Перевод на русский язык см. ниже
Angesichts des brutalen Angriffskrieges, den Russland – ein Land, dem ich mich familiär und freundschaftlich verbunden fühle – vollkommen gegen die Ukraine begonnen hat und der furchtbaren Folgen, des Leides, der Angst, der Zerstörung und der vielen Toten, fällt es mir schwer, meine Gedanken auf etwas anderes zu richten als auf den Krieg.
Ich hätte eine ganze Reihe von Fotos aus dem erwachenden Frühling, die ich zeigen könnte, aber mir steht der Sinn nicht danach. Statt verlinke ich ein Lied des in der gesamten ehemaligen UdSSR und darüber hinaus bekannten und von vielen verehrten Sängers und Schauspielers Wladimir Wysotskij, der eine Reihe von Liedern über und gegen den Krieg geschrieben hat. Ich bin mir sicher, würde er heute noch leben, dann gehörte er zu denen, die aufstehen und ihre Stimme gegen diesen Krieg erheben.
There is no reason to keep strangling life and wounding this earth.
Each of us plays an important role in spreading the message of peace and love.
We should show others there are ways to get to that better place where all of us can live in unison and peace.
(Think about um, the generations
And ah, say we want to make it a better place for our children
And our children’s children so that they, they
They, they know it’s a better world for them
And think if they can make it a better place)
There’s a place in your heart
And I know that it is love
And this place it was brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try
You’ll find there’s no need to cry
In this place you’ll feel there’s no hurt or sorrow
There are ways to get there
If you care enough for the living
Make a little space
Make a better place
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
If you want to know why
There’s love that cannot lie
Love is strong
It only cares of joyful giving
If we try we shall see
In this bliss we cannot feel
Fear of dread, we stop existing and start living
Then it feels that always
Love’s enough for us growing
Make a better world
So make a better world
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life
Wound this earth, crucify its soul?
Though it’s plain to see, this world is heavenly
Be god’s glow
We could fly so high
Let our spirits never die
In my heart I feel you are all my brothers
Create a world with no fear
Together we cry happy tears
See the nations turn their swords into plowshares
We could really get there
If you cared enough for the living
Make a little space
To make a better place
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
Heal the world (heal the world)
Make it a better place
For you and for me, and the entire human race
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me
You and for me (for a better place)
You and for me (make a better place)
You and for me (make a better place)
You and for me (heal the world we live in)
You and for me (save it for our children)
You and for me (heal the world we live in)
You and for me (save it for our children)
You and for me (heal the world we live in)
You and for me (save it for our children)
You and for me (heal the world we live in)
You and for me (save it for our children)
Instead of writing a poem today, I ask all of you to take 2 minutes – only 2 minutes – to look within, and focus on a peaceful and loving world – the world we all want to live in. Hold this image in your heart and create a ball of love and light within you. Project it onto the vulnerable areas and people involved to bring healing where it is needed the most. Please, don’t forget that the person who caused the chaos may need the most healing.
Even though Russian President Vladimir Putin had said that it were fabrications by the West to smear him and attack Russia, he insisted that he would not invade Ukraine, but early this morning the tanks stormed into Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming Russia was invited by the Donbass People’s Republic, announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday 2022 February 24, with explosions heard soon after in the capital and other parts of the country, prompting outrage from Joe Biden who warned of a “catastrophic loss of life”.
In a live broadcast before the first explosions were heard in Ukraine’s major cities, Putin cited part 7, Article 51 of the United Nations charter as valid grounds for recognising the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic as independent breakaway states.
In the previous months, there were already suggestions that in case the situation in Ukraine would escalate, this could bring us to the verge of a new world war.
The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) an independent, not-for-profit organisation that combats injustice, which wants to hold power to account and speaks for the voiceless, also looks at the current situation in Ukraine. In their article “Why Putin’s Attack on Ukraine Could Mean World War 3” they look at Putin to see if he is right when he said attacking Ukraine is a form of defence according to the UN charter.
Article 51 of the UN charter gives countries the right “to engage in self-defence, including collective self-defence, against an armed attack”.
FIJ says
It is impossible to consider the charter without first considering what ‘countries’ Putin referred to as “suffering abuse and genocide” in his statement on Thursday.
The Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic are two countries on the east of Ukraine that are only recognised as countries by each other and Russia.
Both regions are part of Ukraine in the eyes of 192 of the UN’s 193 member states, but Russia relies on a May 11, 2014 referendum as enough backing for its stance.
Throughout 2020 and 2021 people wondered how long their restrictions would take. In many countries doctors and nursers had to give more than their best to save lives. In the health area they were at war, daily fighting this war whose enemy is invisible.
For them, there is this message.
We keep praying for all those involved to help people to survive this crisis.
As citizens, we can all do our best to stay safe by keeping to the Corona measures. Let us not forget all those health workers and in respect of them stay protected at home stay.
A song about taking refuge in God when you feel like running away from God or the situation you find yourself in.
Today many people all over the world are in difficulties. In the East, there are lots of brothers and sisters in Christ who have to keep their faith quiet or have to be very prudent to speak about God and His son Jesus. As brothers and sisters in Christ we welcomed many refugees and took them up in our ecclesial, where they share the Word of God and can feel safe.
In this morning service we paid attention to the way we can let others come into our life and into our community, but how God does such greeting work much better than any human being. He opens His heart for everybody without any consideration. He is willing to receive all those who want to become under Christ and to accept and adopt them as children of Him.
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Holy Overshadowing – Live – Christian Worship song by Graham Kendrick (UK Worship Leader)
O spread Your wings of mercy over me
And guard my heart with true humility
No shadow of the darkness pressing in
Only the holy overshadowing
Underneath Your wings, overshadowing
Verse 2:
No refuge will I seek but God alone
No hiding place save only at Your throne
Only the cross, the blood to wash my sin
Only the holy overshadowing
Underneath Your wings,
overshadowing
Chorus:
You are my shield, and my glory
You are the lifter of my head
And though the storms may rage around me
I’ll be safe within
Beneath the holy overshadowing
Verse 3:
No burden on my back too hard to bear
Only the easy load
You bid me wear
Until these troubles pass,
my heart will sing
Praise for the holy overshadowing
Underneath Your wings,
overshadowing
Ending:
Underneath Your wings
Overshadowing, overshadowing
Probably we are looking at more than 150 victims of the heavy rain and flooding which took parts of Germany, Belgium and the South of the Netherlands. Authorities said late Thursday that about 1,300 people in Germany were still listed missing, but cautioned that the high figure could be due to duplication of data and difficulties reaching people because of disrupted roads and phone connections.
In Belgium, Pepinster, Theux, Chaudfontaine, Spa, Liège a.o. got enough water to forget draughts for months. Most of the drowned were found around Liege, where the rains hit hardest. Skies were largely overcast in eastern Belgium, with hopes rising that the worst of the calamity was over.
Please find this report about the flash floods this week which followed days of heavy rainfall, sweeping away cars and causing houses to collapse across the region.
“Some parts of Western Europe … received up to two months of rainfall in the space of two days. What made it worse is that the soils were already saturated by previous rainfall,”
said Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organization.
Those who keep saying Climate chance is an invention of revolutionaries and lefties, should have a better look of how our weather becomes unpredictable.
Extreme weather events are hitting Europe more frequently as climate change warms the continent, experts agree.
2020 was Europe’s hottest year since records began over 300 years ago, according to analysis of global weather stations by Berkeley Earth, and eight of the 10 hottest ever years have been in the past decade.
The continent’s average temperature is now roughly 2C warmer than it was at the start of the 20th century – an increase that has come with a growth in extreme weather.
For example, warmer air holds more water which, in turn, can lead to extreme downpours.
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Originally posted on Seeking Redemption: To those now deep into biblical scripture you are probably aware of the difference between reading the bible and meditating on the world. Naturally, like many young Christians, I had assumed that once you read the bible, and you knew God’s words and it was enough. But I kept hearing…
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“The Bible is indeed the greatest book ever written. It has shaped the cultures of the world in countless ways, and it contains the words of everlasting life. But for so many today, it is largely opaque, indecipherable – at best a puzzling text from a prescientific age.” Bishop Robert Barron, The Word on […]
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In the face of the despicable attack on a major department store, we cannot help but wonder how long the international community will stand by and watch all those war crimes that Russia continues to commit with impunity.
Bij de verachtelijke aanval op een groot warenhuis kunnen wij niet nalaten ons af te vragen hoe lang de Internationale gemeenschap zal toezien op al die oorlogsmisdaden die Rusland ongestraft blijft uitvoeren.
Beginning of the end for Boris Johnson Incredible, after all the lies and absurdities, the Tories in the UK still did not need it necessary for their clown to step down. The Tory leader, who has undermined British values by “downgrading, debasing and demeaning” the standards expected of ministers in public life, survived a confidence […]
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the symbols of the capitalist states were able to conquer Russian territory. In the big cities, those marks appeared in Russia that we can find in every city in Europe. It was the CEO of McDonald’s Canada, American-Canadian citizen George Cohon, […]
2022 May 16 On the 30th of April Russian forces pressed the attack in eastern Ukraine on Saturday April 30, but failed to capture their three main objectives, the Ukrainian military said. Per the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces, the Russians were attempting to capture the city of Lyman in the Donetsk Oblast and […]
2022, May 16 Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the West took measures to get Russia on its knees to stop the war. Though for the European Union, a blockade on shipments of Russian oil looked a distant possibility just two months ago. But there were many voices that uttered it would be best that Europe made […]
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Fame and infamy are attached to family names. Jeroboam the son of Nebat was a name to be shunned: to be spiritually associated with it was a sin and a judgement. “Son of man”, a title taken to himself by the Lord Jesus, is one we all bear. It takes us back in time to […]
UnlikeE many occupations of the twentieth century, that of being a shepherd in the chosen land gave scope for the mind which wished to worship God and to keep itself unsullied by the world without. Even so, the will of God brought David from the pastoral peace of the sheepfold into the world of men. […]
The triumph of Jesus points the way to victory in the lives of all those who follow him. We do not require the extreme rigours of the wilderness to tempt us to make stones into bread. Most men live by bread alone, and do not discover until too late that all is vanity and vexation […]
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Elements of the Tabernacle to be reared up upon earth, for the glory of God, will be supplied from the ranks of Adam’s descendants in conformity with the divine specifications.
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Event Western allies must avoid provoking “thin-skinned” President Putin who now has a “messianic obsession” with Russian greatness, a former Nato secretary general has said. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, who led the alliance between 1999 and 2003, said Britain and other nations should be careful with their language because the Russian leader now has […]
Doorheen de tijden hebben heel wat mensen hun toevlucht genomen tot gebeden om uit bepaalde situaties te komen of om voor anderen te bidden zodat hun lijden tot een einde zou mogen komen. Als we terugkijken naar de jonge kerk in Jeruzalem, dan was hun reputatie niet alleen het breken van het brood en de […]
When we look back at the infant church in Jerusalem, their reputation was not only for breaking bread, and the Apostles’ doctrine, but for prayer. They were a community that prayed often. They prayed individually. They prayed in meetings together. They prayed in the Temple. They saw prayer as a way to serve others, like […]
Er zijn heel wat mensen die beweren gelovig te zijn. Maar in wat en wie geloven zij? Er zijn heel wat Christenen die beweren in God te geloven. Maar als wij navraag doen over hun god, komen wij te horen dat zij in een heel andere god geloven dan in de God van de Bijbel. […]
Nothing ever goes smoothly, it seems. Or if something does it’s almost a shock. Our culture has a name for it: Murphy’s Law. No point in going into all the ways it shows up in daily living. But it might be worth thinking about it in a spiritual context. Head for your Bible, and the […]
Sommigen nemen aan dat Gods Koninkrijk geen wereldomvattend Vrederijk is maar eerder een geestelijke toestand in het hart van de vromen zou zijn. Voor hetzelfde woord vindt men zowel de vertaling “koninkrijk” als “koningschap” waarbij het Koninkrijk door zijn omvangrijkheid overal te merken zal zijn en terugslaat op het Vrederijk van Christus Jezus.
Uit de spreukachtige gezegden die Jezus gebruikt tijdens zijn bergrede blijkt hoe de ene uitspraak slechts één kant van een zaak belicht terwijl een andere betrekking heeft op een ander aspect hiervan.
In Jezus tijd was mondelinge overlevering heel belangrijk. Daarom gebruikte Jezus als leerkracht spreekvormen die het makkelijker maakten om het gezegde te onthouden, zoals bijvoorbeeld een spreukachtige taal.
Bible prophecies do not deal only with the ancient past. They also accurately foretell events that are taking place in our day. But at the moment we focus at numerous prophecies preserved in the Hebrew Scriptures (commonly called the Old Testament) which long before the man was born told about events which would happen in his time and around him, his betrayal, humiliation, torture, execution, death, and burial. From those writings of the Old and New Testament nobody should have doubts who that man is who is called Immanuel, the son of man and Messiah, born out of the root of Jess in the tribe of king David.
In Scripture, all things are directed towards a man who was a servant of servants, in whom people should come to have faith. First we saw the connection with Eve and her seed, and in this article you may see the connection with Abraham.
Already in the Old Testament we find the focus on a son of man who is called the son of God, who shall be the most pure set apart (holy) servant of God who was been told about in the Garden of Eden, to be the one bruised.
Many Old Testament writers wrote about the prophet to come, about whom is spoke in the book of Moses and who shall be the special “Seed of a woman” given by God and who will bruise Satan’s head whilst his heel would be bruised with nails on the wooden stake.
Jewish and Christian literature since the time of Yeshua or Jeshua have pointed to Genesis 3:15 as the first reference to the Messiah in the Torah. Genesis 3:15 NHEBJE I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his […]
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Luke 1:26-38 – Gabriel’s Appearance to Mary LK1:26 Now in Elizabeth’s sixth month of pregnancy the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the village of Galilee called Nazareth, LK1:27 to a virgin[1] [Isaiah 7:14] promised in marriage to a man named Joseph of David’s House. And the name of the virgin was Mary.[2] LK1:28 […]
Luke 1:23-25 – Elizabeth Pregnant LK1:23 Now it came to pass that when Zechariah’s priestly service was finished[1] he left to his own house. LK1:24 During those days his wife Elizabeth did conceive and for five months she kept it hidden, saying, LK1:25 “This is how YHWH has dealt with me during these days when […]
Luke 1:18-22 – Struck Dumb For Disbelief LK1:18 Now Zechariah said to the angel: “How can I be sure of this?[1] For I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”[2] LK1:19 Then the angel answered him: “I am Gabriel[3] who stands in the very presence of The God![4] I was […]
Luke 1:8-17 – An Angel Appears to a Priest LK1:8 Now [something] happened while Zechariah was serving as priest before The God when it was the turn for his [priestly] division. LK1:9 Then according to the ritual of the priesthood it was his turn to burn incense[1] when he entered the temple of the LORD. […]
Luke 1:5-7 – Zechariah and Elizabeth LK1:5 In the days of Herod,[1] king of Judea, there happened to be a certain priest named Zechariah[2] out of the [priestly] division of Abijah,[3] as well as his wife named Elizabeth[4] from the daughters of Aaron. LK1:6 Now they were both righteous before The God, walking blamelessly in […]
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Today we come to one of the most important figures of Jewish literature of the medieval period, the Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Maimonides often better known as Rambam.
The French school of the 11th century was hardly less important. Gershom ben Judah, the “Light of the Exile” (d. in 1040 at Mainz), a famous Talmudist and commentator, his pupil Jacob ben Yaqar, and Moses of Narbonne, called ha-Darshan, the “Exegete,” were the forerunners of the greatest of all Jewish commentators, Solomon ben Isaac […]
The aim of the grammatical studies of the Spanish school was ultimately exegesis. This had already been cultivated in the East. In the 9th century Ḥīvī of Balkh wrote a rationalistic treatise [A fragment of such a work, probably emanating from the school of Ḥīvī was found by Schechter and published in J.Q.R., xiii. 345 […]
Medieval scholarship To return to the period of the Geōnīm. While the schools of Babylonia were flourishing as the religious head of Judaism, the West, and especially Spain under Moorish rule, was becoming the home of Jewish scholarship. On the breaking up of the schools many of the fugitives fled to the West and helped […]
First of all to come to a good relationship with some one, one has to talk with that person and has to listen to what that person has to tell. God talks to the people by the way of His Word, presented to mankind by the many Bible translations, so that most people can read […]
The One Who created everything and Who gave His Word, did all He did with a purpose and out of love. The Bible teaches us that “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Everything God does is motivated by love. Out of love created man in His image also with the intention to have a good relationship […]
In the previous writings we saw that the Divine Creator gave His Word to the world so that people could come to know Him. The Bible is a gift from God. It gives us information that we can’t find anywhere else. For example, it tells us that God created the heavens, the earth, and the […]
You don’t need a religion to do soul management, but having a sacred calendar certainly helps. Far from being an endless list of tasks, the Torah itself is a blueprint for management.Judaism, and especially Leviticus, wants us to build a civilization that prioritizes the parts of us that make us most human – our fragility, […]
The British four-part television drama Ridley Road which premiered on BBC One on 3 October 2021 can now also be seen on PBS. The mini-series Ridley Road is set in the East End of London in the early 1960s and follows the story of a Jewish woman who infiltrates the ranks of the neo-Nazis, posing […]
Originally posted on SRQ Jew: We humans live with one foot firmly in the physical world, and yet we have an inexplicable urge to dip a toe in the spiritual world. However strong or tentative that impulse may be, we all have our moments when we long to transcend our physical being and soar. Where…
Originally posted on Walking the Bridge Books: Isaac said, Let’s speak about the water of life. Water comes in several forms. But it is still and always Water, just as the One is always One. Water can be ice, liquid or steam. Consider that ice is form; water could represent consciousness; steam represents awareness. We…
2022 May 20 Event A Russian counter-attack on Israeli forces in Syria has raised fears of a potential escalation to the conflict, with experts fearing a similar provocation “within days”. This week, Russia launched missiles on Israeli jets that had flown over Syria and struck targets north of Damascus. Several casualties were reported and the Syrian army returned fire […]
Forbes, April 28, 2022 Event Quite a few billionaires born in Russia have taken advantage of the “Law of Return,” otherwise known as “Aliyah,” which grants automatic entry and passports to any Jew, or anyone who can prove they have at least one Jewish grandparent. According to Forbes’ research, more than 40% of the 111 Russian-born billionaires […]
The feeling that their own nation is sacred and should be protected against outside forces makes people choose right-wing politicians who promise them an ideal flourishing prosperous nation
Met Rosj Hasjana denken wij aan de wondere scheppingsdaad van de Allerhoogste. Spijtig genoeg moeten wij toegeven dat de mensheid van die schepping een janboel heeft gemaakt.
Door de eeuwen heen zijn er steeds mensen geweest die inzagen hoe alles rondom hen mogelijk was en hoe er geloof kon gesteld worden in Die Maker van alle dingen en hoe ze Hem als het ware als een schild en toevluchtsoord konden gebruiken.
In en met hun geloof durfden zij te spreken over hun geloof en wat de wereld mocht verwachten in toekomende tijden.
Telkens als er een dag voor je ligt moet je deze nemen alsof het de laatste dag van je leven is. En daar moet je dan van genieten en sterk maken dat je Leeft!
When having many questions an interesting blog to look at: their old and more recent Posts: Questiontime - Vragenuurtje
Does one need proof to come to a certain belief? We can look at the signs in nature and find out what happened to certain people in the past, such as Noah and Paul. With the Book of Books, Allah has provided the world with His Interpretative Word.
Heeft men bewijzen nodig om tot een bepaald geloof te komen? Wij kunnen naar de tekenen in de natuur kijken en nagaan wat er in het verleden met bepaalde mensen, zoals Noach en Paulus is gebeurd. Met het Boek der boeken heeft Allah de wereld van Zijn Alzeggend Woord voorzien.
When we speak about “Faith” (iman) we look at acceptance of the Belief in the existence and oneness of God (Allah).and the existence of the Book of books of which God is the author, existing of five main parts, the Torah (revealed to Moses),,the Psalms (revealed to David).and the Writings of Kings and prophets as well as the Gospel (revealed to Jesus) with the writings of his apostles,
Wanneer wij over “Geloof” (iman) spreken, zien wij op de aanvaarding van het Geloof in het bestaan en de eenheid van God (Allah) en het bestaan van het Boek der boeken waarvan God de auteur is, bestaande uit vijf hoofdstukken, de Torah (geopenbaard aan Mozes), de Psalmen (geopenbaard aan David) en de Geschriften van Koningen en Profeten, alsmede het Evangelie (geopenbaard aan Jezus) met de geschriften van zijn apostelen,
One may wonder in which or what kind of god people want to believe. It is striking that many people like to have a certain form of mystery around their deity and therefore do not choose the God Who pours clear wine and sends very reliable Words to earth.
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The apostle Paul wrote about the dispersion, the dispersed House of Israel. They had been “without covenant“, but Paul was sent out to recover them. So they were “grafted in again“ (Romans 11/23). Or, Grafted back in“. If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been […]
Rob Mac wonders when the door to door will return? He wrote this a while back, and went sharing it again. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses hate the door to door ministry, although they won’t readily admit it. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses have developed ‘creative’ ways of counting their time doing this work, and many strategies for avoiding actually […]
Constantine wanted unity in his realm, and his call in 325 C.E. for a council of his bishops at Nicaea, located in the Eastern, Greek-speaking domain of his empire, across the Bosporus from the new city of Constantinople was in a certain way his goal to achieve some agreement by which many could live. Constantine […]
Superstition, misunderstanding and hatred caused the Christians trouble for many generations, and governmental repression they had to suffer occasionally, as a result of popular disturbances. No systematic effort was made by the imperial authorities to put an end to the movement until the reign of the Roman emperor (249–251) who fought the Gothic invasion of […]
Self-enhancing When the apostles had died there came a time when those in charge of teaching and going around telling about the gospel, started coming to see themselves as special people. Some even started to consider themselves as ‘clergy of the highest order’. After a time the organisation of the church was given only to […]
die stil man (5 jaar terug) dit is my stapmaat en ons oefen vir die Camino as ons ses-uur op ‘n Saterdag-oggend begin stap dan loop hy voor en vinnig sy vuiste gebal van al die spanning genade, sê almal hierdie man praat nie ‘n woord nie, hoe hou jy dit? dan sê ek nee, […]
Ek kry die boksie as my afskeidsgeskenk, binne-in drie vouchers vir drie kunsklasse. Ek weet dadelik wat ek wil verf en wag geduldig vir tyd om oop te val. Ek bel Svetlana en bespreek drie oggend-sessies, in een week. I’ve been waiting for your call, sê sy. Can you paint? the world will tell you […]
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Tegenover de Getuigen van Jehovah zijn er ook de Getuigen voor Christus die Getuigenis afleggen voor Christus en zijn God Jehovah.
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A community of real followers of Christ, assembling for sharing the Good News of the works of the Moshiach Jeshua and his heavenly Father the Elohim Hashem Jehovah.
Jeshuaist Focus
Uiteenzetting hoe eenieder tot het Volk kan behoren dat het Koninkrijk van god zal mogen binnentreden
Jeshuaisten – Jeshuaists
Een plaats van en voor liefhebbers van de Joodse Nazarener rabbi Jeshua om het bijbelkennis te versterken. – A site of and for lovers of the Nazarene Jewish rabbi Jeshua to strengthen their knowledge of the Scriptures.
Jeshuaists (or Yeshuaists)
Jeshuaists (or Yeshuaists) are followers of the Nazarene rebbe Jeshua who presented himself as a sent one from the Adonai Most High Elohim, Hashem Jehovah.
Jeshuaists for Jehovah
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