The end of the world, as we know it...
REM sings a song called the end of the world as we know it, but also conclude that they feel fine...
Today, before 9am SA time, this happened: Eight South Africans died in a suicide bomb attack which killed 12 in Kabul in Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, the department of international relations and co-operation has confirmed.
"Our mission in Islamabad in Pakistan, which is also accredited in Afghanistan, has informed us that eight South Africans were among the dead in the explosion which occurred in Kabul early this morning," a foreign affairs spokesperson told AFP.
"They worked for a private aviation company," he added. The group were all believed to be men, he said. Our mission in Islamabad is working on the identity of the men and contacting their next of kin."
Tuesday's attack by a woman suicide bomber was the deadliest single attack claimed to avenge a US film that has sparked a week of bloody protests across the Muslim world. More than 30 people have now been killed in the violent backlash over a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims.
What is going on, I ask myself? How can people go about killing others, and themselves, in cold blood? How do these things happen?
Its quite simple... 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Matthew 24:21 - For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Yes, all of this is true. All of it is in the Bible. All of it will happen, and some, if not most of it, is happening now already. Trying times, even for many a believer. Now I am no dooms prophet. I try to live each day with a smile on my face how-ever difficult that may be.
In the same way that I do not condemn people killing others I also do not condemn incitement of violence. If I do not agree with anther's religion or the lack of it, it does not help to threaten or make movies about it. They only way to change peoples perspective is by showing them love and to live your life in His name. We should be the hands and feet, not hands and feet carrying guns etc, or tongues spitting fire.
If you cannot change your own ways, how will you change another? And don't judge...
Today, before 9am SA time, this happened: Eight South Africans died in a suicide bomb attack which killed 12 in Kabul in Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, the department of international relations and co-operation has confirmed.
"Our mission in Islamabad in Pakistan, which is also accredited in Afghanistan, has informed us that eight South Africans were among the dead in the explosion which occurred in Kabul early this morning," a foreign affairs spokesperson told AFP.
"They worked for a private aviation company," he added. The group were all believed to be men, he said. Our mission in Islamabad is working on the identity of the men and contacting their next of kin."
Tuesday's attack by a woman suicide bomber was the deadliest single attack claimed to avenge a US film that has sparked a week of bloody protests across the Muslim world. More than 30 people have now been killed in the violent backlash over a YouTube trailer for the film Innocence of Muslims.
What is going on, I ask myself? How can people go about killing others, and themselves, in cold blood? How do these things happen?
Its quite simple... 2 Timothy 3:1-5 - But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Matthew 24:21 - For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Yes, all of this is true. All of it is in the Bible. All of it will happen, and some, if not most of it, is happening now already. Trying times, even for many a believer. Now I am no dooms prophet. I try to live each day with a smile on my face how-ever difficult that may be.
In the same way that I do not condemn people killing others I also do not condemn incitement of violence. If I do not agree with anther's religion or the lack of it, it does not help to threaten or make movies about it. They only way to change peoples perspective is by showing them love and to live your life in His name. We should be the hands and feet, not hands and feet carrying guns etc, or tongues spitting fire.
If you cannot change your own ways, how will you change another? And don't judge...
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