There was a miserable Vietnamese born in the beginning of the Second World War, grown up during the French colonial war renewed all over his miserable country, and terminated right at the end of the American anti-communist war in South East Asia -April that 1975 miserable year. Forty years ago today, he was really made stateless inside his country of birth -country of origin as per official papers at the UNHCR's Galang Refugee Camp in Indonesia. April 1990, he came there an Asylum Seeker, neither a prima facie nor a bona fide Refugee. He now wished he could then not have declared 'No citizenship - Viet ethnic origin'. By then he had already given up the Viet-nam of both the late Republic and the Socialist regime. Sort of bat that birds would not recognise as of their species, neither could rats as of theirs! So many generations of the Viet People had been wasted away that their four-thousand-year heritage was also gone -remaining merely on the papers. Moved now to be moving on, he used to recall it has really been so painful and grievous such experiences, for all sides of the war. However he definitely chose, was and is quite happy with, that position -in order to try living up his people's legacy to no avail actually. On the other hand, over three decades on the way of sojourners, from Vietnam to Indonesia then Australia to North America, he has also been quite happy he could have comprehended how come that four out of five Children of Israel still are in their Diaspora -almost seventy years after the State of Israel had been established: The tiny speck of dust has gone off the ground with the wind all the way backward, from the Vietnamese miseries through the Jewish tragedy to the Ancient Hebrew Sojourners -whose Peaceful and Happy and Prosperous WAY OF LIFE had been scripturally recognised for Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph. No such recognition was recorded for Jacob the usurper, later renamed Israel the struggler explicitly against God and men -prevailing both: The Hebrew Way of Sojourners was replaced by the Israelite Way of Conquerors / Invaders / Terminators / Dominators ... -thus causing all sorts of war and tragedy and destruction ... up until nowadays. The Hebrews' unique spirituality revealed him their unique Creator namely YHVH that has never been ever taught of before: He has ever since studied of, walked on, and testified to the Sojourners' Way. Alone on The Way deserted ages ago, the modern sojourner is sharing his studies and experimentation throughout the present day wild world of tensions and conflicts and wars ... from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Far East Asia and the Pacific ... that 'Faith Not Alone' shall help eradicate all sorts of radicalism, religious radicalism in particular -the very source of violence and evil: Seed of tares had been sown, roots of evil and violence have been grown, and large branches of powers are shadowing all over our present day world and humankind. This writing is purported to clarify his 'Not-Alone Faith' as WHEAT quite different from all sorts of TARES which have traditionally been accepted and treasured 'By Faith Alone'.
During that first half of May, security officers coming from the North intensified their investigation into the whole lot of my alleged blood-debts. Day and night, they were never at all tired of accusing me on proofs of sin-commitment archived by their secret agents, the uncovered comrades working so long ago for them inside RVN Governments at all levels. David KOLZION takes you into a world of political intrigue, violence, and redemption with his unforgettable autobiography Memoir 1975-2005. KOLZION was a lecturer at the Dalat University in Vietnam when the Communists took over Dalat city in March of 1975. Immediately put under the Communists' strict surveillance for an undetermined amount of time, KOLZION endured their severe investigation into his alleged blood-debts against the Vietnamese people. KOLIZON escaped from Dalat in 1980 and then from Vietnam ten years later. He was a political refugee at the Galang Refugee Camp of Indonesia from 1990 to1993. In 1993, he became a permanent resident in Australia and then renamed himself KOLZION in 1994. Full of intriguing and historical details, Memoir 1975-2005 will captivate your spirit.
Miscellaneous scriptural studies1- Solomon the preacher2- Preacher Solomon's God3- In the stead of YHVH4- The Hebrews' Way5- Strange sojourns6- The Yeh-Shua Way7- AfterwordTestimonials 2003-2011; Index
There was a miserable Vietnamese born in the beginning of the Second World War, grown up during the French colonial war renewed all over his miserable country, and terminated right at the end of the American anti-communist war in South East Asia —April that 1975 miserable year.It has since been forty full years now: The tiny speck of dust has gone off the ground with the wind all the way backward, from the Vietnamese miseries through the Jewish tragedy to the Ancient Hebrew Sojourners —whose Peaceful and Happy and Prosperous WAY OF LIFE had been scripturally recognised for Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph.No such recognition was recorded for Jacob the usurper, later renamed Israel the struggler explicitly against God and men –prevailing both: The Hebrew Way of Sojourners was replaced by the Israelite Way of Conquerors / Invaders / Terminators / Dominators … —thus causing all sorts of war and tragedy and destruction … up until nowadays.The Hebrews' unique spirituality revealed him their unique Creator of the name YEHVAH that has never been ever taught of before: He has ever since studied of, walked on, and testified to the Sojourners' Way.Alone on The Way deserted ages ago, the modern sojourner is sharing his studies and experimentation throughout the present day wild world of tensions and conflicts and wars … from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Far East Asia and the Pacific … that 'Faith Not Alone' shall help eradicate all sorts of radicalism, religious radicalism in particular –the very source of violence and evil.This bilingual edition is purported to clarify his 'Not-Alone Faith' as WHEAT quite different from all sorts of TARES which have traditionally been accepted and treasured 'By Faith Alone'. For seed of tares had been sown, roots of evil and violence have been grown, and large branches of powers are shadowing all over our present day world and humankind.
This millennium of the Christian era came with wars, one against infidels another on terrorism, which are more than enough for a miserable Vietnamese –born in the beginning of a world war –grown up during a French war –and terminated at the end of an American war.Born again 'neither by might nor by power' and having lived his faith for almost thirty years now, he was moved to study scriptures ancient and not-so-ancient, and has been enabled to have his studies printed —dozen titles are dedicated to the uprooted, displaced, and dispersed people like him as well as peoples like his –yet not so appropriately published that most of his old acquaintances scattered to North America actually know only of his death forty years ago.Neither religions nor theology were of his studies, instead it was mathematics and physics, pedagogy and philosophy. Better read no books than believe only one, he used to seriously study every of all the books that happened to fall into his hands or to run onto himself —the written whatsoever and the living whomsoever: Years ago he was kept on an island of refuge in a time just enough for him to study the accusation bold and public, 'Christians and Jews are infidels; People of the Book, they have distorted their Scripture!' Twenty years of self-incarceration inside Adelaide, Australia, assured him of his in-depth studies on The Books of each People —the Holy 22 or 24 (Scriptures) and the Holy 46 or 39 (of dozen Bibles) plus dozens of not-so-Holy Books. Then he was brought upon the eagles' wings –from a south-eastern island of the old world –across the ocean Pacific and crossing both the International Time Line and the Equator at about a same night time (so that he could see nothing down there pacific or not) –to some north-western lands of the new world (of names like Angels and Real-Mount).Then, in the Spirit of Yeh-Vah he was set down amidst very many bones that were indeed very dry, as they themselves acknowledged it, saying, “Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we are cut off”. They were actually eating and drinking and enjoying their death for the day of their independence from Yeh-Vah –while he was standing on Level 102 of the Empire State Building –with a 'Scripture, the Most Correct, containing the Fullness of Everlasting Gospel'.
IN THE BEGINNING of the so-called Christian era, YEH-SHUA the Jew of Nazareth came to fire tirades of ferocious judgments upon Scribes and Pharisees who, he said, were sitting in Moses' throne, binding heavy burdens on men's shoulders … traveling land and sea to win proselytes … making them twice as much sons of hell … —until he himself was put on a fire of the death on cross, so much tragic that Luke related he had come to send FIRE on earth —wishing it WERE already kindled! Yeh-Shua is the Hebraic English for the scriptural Hebrew Yod-Hay-Vav-Shin-Ayin naming both Joshua of the so-called Old Testament and Jesus of the New Testament—as well as the Another Testament of the Latter-Day Saints —and Isa of the Qur'an as well. Joshua was said to have walked after (on the Way of) the Creator namely Yod-Hay-Vav-Hay, Jesus has still been believed to have said “I am the Way”, that is the difference; but this is the same meaning of both English names: Yod-Hay-Vav-Shin-Ayin means YHVH Saves or YHVH Will Save. Jesus 'the Way, the Truth, and the Life' is 'God the Son' and 'our LORD and SAVIOUR'; but Yeh-Shua the Jew of Nazareth is a human whom YHVH had saved by pouring upon with unlimited Spirit and whose spirit YHVH would have saved as soon as Jesus said, “Father, into your hand I commend my spirit”, then breathed his last breath —for dust taken out of the ground is to return to whereof it was and spirit to YHVH who gave it out.A couple of decades after Yeh-Shua was crucified, Saul of Tarsus the Roman-born and already Hellenised Jew of his next generation began Hellenising him into Iesous and anointed him Christos for the making of Christianity—Christian-ism on grounds of etymology, the Religion set up by that first Christian upon his Christians. Saul never knew Yeh-Shua, he was consenting to the stoning of Stephen a follower of Yeh-Shua's disciples when a youth and making havoc of them when at service to the high priest —entering every house and dragging off men and women… to prison … —from Jerusalem to Damascus … on the way thereto Saul suddenly saw Christ the Lord.
A former university lecturer in the late Republic of Vietnam, 1968-1975, the writer was definitely exterminated at the end of his thirty fifth year of age. Over a decade later, every of all the things 'it had taken forty six years to build up' was completely 'destroyed in three days', his name at birth included. The man 'dead and entombed in eleven years' has since been 'gone with the wind' for thirty years now. Blown 'in the spirit' backward some millennia, from the Vietnamese tragedies through the Jewish miseries to the peaceful and happy and prosperous lifestyle of the Hebrews -whose unique spirituality revealed him their unique Creator namely YHVH as never been ever taught of before- he has ever since studied of, walked on, and testified to the Hebrew Sojourners' Way. Alone on The Way deserted ages ago, the modern sojourner is sharing his studies and experimentation throughout the present day wild world of tensions and conflicts and wars ... from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Far East Asia and the Pacific ... that Faith Not Alone shall help eradicate all sorts of radicalism, religious radicalism in particular -the very source of violence and evil.
On September 11, 2001, OSAMA bin Laden, Leader of the al-Qaeda, ordered the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York: Almost three thousand lives were lost. By May 01, 2011, Barack Hussein OBAMA, President of the United States of America, had ordered the execution of that most wanted terrorist; On the day, at 11:35 PM the President announced, "Operation accomplished ... Justice done!' Both celebrated AUTHORITIES did have BECOME LIKE GOD to determine GOOD AND EVIL _ Essay 1: Obama prevailed Osama. "President Obama will have pacified Vietnam BY 2014 and the world BY 2016" according to a self-claimed UNIVERSAL PROPHET FROM GOD & JESUS (sic) _ Essay 10: Future-telling, End-time prophesying. This is a collection of essays by a non-religious free-lance writer, in light of the Hebrew Scripture and in line with King Solomon's CONVOCATION (Kohelet). All might altogether be considered heresies _ yet none be intended to offend anyone whomsoever.
Miscellaneous scriptural studies:1_Resurrection, Land of the dead2_Inspiration, Beyond the tombs3_On the wings of eagles, The New Israel4_On the island of refuge_The New Patmos5_In the land of sojourn, The New Ishmael6_The American New Israel7_The World New Ishmael8_The Advent of Christ and his Israel9_Of the Hebrews' Way, The Ancient Hyksos10_Of the Yeh-Shua's Way, The New EzekielIntroduction - Testimonials - Bibliography - Index
The Sino-American peaceful coexistence and cooperation realised gradually 1954–1972 from Geneva and deteriorated quietly 1996–2001 from Shanghai as the Chinese People's Republic kicked start cooperation with Russia for China's dream of globalisation.The Shanghai Five (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan) became Shanghai Six with Uzbekistan, and their Shanghai Cooperation Organisation would have incorporated Iran 2008 and Pakistan 2011: The People's Republic of China has since gone global (Olympic Games) and universal (Space Giant).Meanwhile the American globalisation bypassed an end-time prophecy (WW III Sunday May 27th) and President Obama prevailed over both G8 and NATO summits on American soil as well as both latter Russian (ex-communist) and French (socialist) administrations. All former collaborator-and-foe seemed to have been threatened, punished, and subdued. This title, initially The Voice of God's Rock, was to study the Judeo-Christian tradition of 'struggling with and prevailing over God and Man'as stated in Genesis regarding Israeland recorded in an old-testament prophecy by some Isaiah,“the outcasts of Israel and the dispersed of Judah will be gathered together from the four corners of the earth … they shall fly …toward the west and shall plunder …the east”It was made anew by Saint John the Divine, “144,000 Saints shall be with the KING of KINGSand LORD of LORDS …and they shall reign all nations”The etiquette God is dropped off and the Rock deprived of its proper name Zion. WHY?
King Solomon was so wise understanding the Creator YHVH and his Israelite subjects that he could build the Temple for the Holy Name. But he was not as wise liquidating ruthlessly his opponents, and strengthening his throne by ways of dominators. So much so that his empire did fall apart right after him. After the 200-year Secession, the Kingdom of Israel disappeared. And ever since the 586-BCE Catastrophe, the Kingdom of Judah with the Jerusalem Temple as well as the Holy Name have fallen into oblivion. This collection of spiritual essays is restoring the Hebre Name 'Divine per se' of the Creator who states, "I will be as I am," and would breathe his Spirit into any Flesh 'dusty per se' yet 'willing per deed'.
During that first half of May, security officers coming from the North intensified their investigation into the whole lot of my alleged blood-debts. Day and night, they were never at all tired of accusing me on proofs of sin-commitment archived by their secret agents, the uncovered comrades working so long ago for them inside RVN Governments at all levels. David KOLZION takes you into a world of political intrigue, violence, and redemption with his unforgettable autobiography Memoir 1975-2005. KOLZION was a lecturer at the Dalat University in Vietnam when the Communists took over Dalat city in March of 1975. Immediately put under the Communists' strict surveillance for an undetermined amount of time, KOLZION endured their severe investigation into his alleged blood-debts against the Vietnamese people. KOLIZON escaped from Dalat in 1980 and then from Vietnam ten years later. He was a political refugee at the Galang Refugee Camp of Indonesia from 1990 to1993. In 1993, he became a permanent resident in Australia and then renamed himself KOLZION in 1994. Full of intriguing and historical details, Memoir 1975-2005 will captivate your spirit.
There was a miserable Vietnamese born in the beginning of the Second World War, grown up during the French colonial war renewed all over his miserable country, and terminated right at the end of the American anti-communist war in South East Asia —April that 1975 miserable year.It has since been forty full years now: The tiny speck of dust has gone off the ground with the wind all the way backward, through the Vietnamese miseries and the Jewish tragedy, and ultimately to the Ancient Hebrew Sojourners —whose Happy and Prosperous WAY OF LIFE had been thus recognised,“YHVH is with you in all that you do!” —for Abraham“We have certainly seen that YHVH is with you!” —for Isaac“Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of GOD?” —for JosephNo such recognition was recorded for Jacob the usurper, later renamed Israel the struggler explicitly against God and men –prevailing both: The Way of Sojourners was replaced by the Way of Conquerors / Invaders / Terminators / Dominators … —thus causing all sorts of war and tragedy and destruction … up until nowadays.
At the end of May 2012 in memory of 58,282 American military personnel sacrificed during the Vietnam War, President Barack Obama commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of that War. But factually their large-scale anti-communist War could not begin in 1962 because of their not-so-obedient puppet President Diem who was to be exterminated in November 1963. Also in fact the American involvement to Vietnam began even before the end of World War II. Their overseas secret (intelligence) services, supervising over the performance of their satellite Republic of China, did have rescued the one who would thus paraphrased the US Declaration of Independence, ?All men are created equal; The Creator has given us certain inviolable rights ?to Life, to Freedom, and to Happiness? ?Henceforth the slogan ?Independence, Freedom, Happiness?Previously the Office of Strategic Services had successfully converted Chiang Kai-shek from a Soviet-trained to an American-sponsored (1927), but could not protect him and his Republic of China from being driven out of mainland China (1949). Neither could the Americans contain Mao?s Red Army therein; nor would they rescue the French forces besieged at Dien Bien Phu: This did please Chou En Lai the Prime Minister and his People?s Republic of China ?so much so that the Sino-American peaceful coexistence and cooperation quietly began mid-1954 at the Geneva Conference and fully exposed mid-1955 at the Bandung Conference.Ngo Dinh Diem (1901?1963) being impeccably nationalist was named by the US Delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference to be new ruler of South Vietnam, particularly approved by the PRC Delegation under Chou En Lai despite the French opposition ?claiming him to be not only incapable but also mad. Be as it may. Anyway President Diem together with President Kennedy as well, both must have been assassinated before President Johnson could deploy US combat forces to Vietnam ?beginning in 1965 and ending up to 536,000 by 1968.So highly controversial such viewpoints on history?s 1952?2012 epochs are herein detailed under the pretext of memory in order to emphasise this merely be a personal living experience writing ?never and not at all an academic study.
A former university lecturer in the late Republic II of Vietnam is reviewing the history of his miserable country for an appropriate understanding on the so-called Vietnamese Tragedy, 1802 to date, not merely from the miserable year 1975 as being usually thought of. This is a historical criticism, no sort of history whatever, comprising seven essays: 1_ The Hundred-Viet people: 4890-year history? 2_ The Great-Viet kingdom's 275-year, 1527-1802, agony! 3_ Bishop Pigneau de Behaine's King Gia-Long, 1802-1820. 4_ The Sino-French Vietnam 5_ The International III into Vietnam 6_ Vietnam, the French War 7_ Vietnam, the American War There have been great titles such as 'Vietnam the Australian War'. No 'Vietnamese War' whatever.
Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. Divinely blessed, musically gifted, brave, and eloquent, David's famous slaying of Goliath also confirms that he is a redoubtable man of war. Yet, when his son Absalom rebels, David is dogged by the accusation than he will lose his kingdom because he is not merely a man of war, but a man of 'bloods' - guilty of shedding innocent blood. In this book, for the first time, this language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' is traced throughout David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings. The theme emerges initially in Saul's pursuit of David and resurfaces regularly as David rises and men like Nabal, Saul, Ishbosheth, and Abner fall. Innocent blood and bloodguilt also turn out to be central to David's reign. This is seen in a surprising way in David's killing of Uriah, but also in the subsequent deaths of his sons, Amnon and Absalom, his general, Amasa, and even in David's encounters with Shimei. The problem rears its head again when the innocent blood of the Gibeonites shed by Saul comes back to haunt David's kingdom. Finally, the problem reappears when Solomon succeeds David and orchestrates the executions of Joab and Shimei, and the exile of Abiathar. Attending carefully to the text and drawing extensively on previous biblical scholarship, David J. Shepherd suggests that innocent blood is not only a pre-eminent concern of David, and his story in Samuel and 1 Kings, but also shapes the entirety of David's history.
Of all the characters bequeathed to us by the Hebrew Bible, none is more compelling or complex than David. Divinely blessed, musically gifted, brave, and eloquent, David's famous slaying of Goliath also confirms that he is a redoubtable man of war. Yet, when his son Absalom rebels, David is dogged by the accusation than he will lose his kingdom because he is not merely a man of war, but a man of 'bloods' - guilty of shedding innocent blood. In this book, for the first time, this language of 'innocent blood' and 'bloodguilt' is traced throughout David's story in the books of Samuel and 1 Kings. The theme emerges initially in Saul's pursuit of David and resurfaces regularly as David rises and men like Nabal, Saul, Ishbosheth, and Abner fall. Innocent blood and bloodguilt also turn out to be central to David's reign. This is seen in a surprising way in David's killing of Uriah, but also in the subsequent deaths of his sons, Amnon and Absalom, his general, Amasa, and even in David's encounters with Shimei. The problem rears its head again when the innocent blood of the Gibeonites shed by Saul comes back to haunt David's kingdom. Finally, the problem reappears when Solomon succeeds David and orchestrates the executions of Joab and Shimei, and the exile of Abiathar. Attending carefully to the text and drawing extensively on previous biblical scholarship, David J. Shepherd suggests that innocent blood is not only a pre-eminent concern of David, and his story in Samuel and 1 Kings, but also shapes the entirety of David's history.
This volume contains fifty-two essays composed in honor of David Noel Freedman and organized around the topics: Hebrew Poetry and Prophecy, The Prose of the Hebrew Bible, History and Institutions of Israel, Northwest Semitic Epigraphy, and Other Perspectives. A bibliography of the honoree is included.
David, The Man of the Heart is a book of essays exploring the impact and implications of the character of King David as revealed through a study of key Psalms. This book is not a chronological biography, but rather an exploration of King David's life as a type of Christ as the Shepherd, the Soldier, the Sovereign, the Sinner, and the Singer. At the same time, the reader is introduced to valuable guidelines to a study of the Psalms.
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