The BBC: ” It is important to remember that the Gulf states have not stood by and done nothing for Syria’s refugees”.
Images of Syrian refugees stuck at borders and at train stations, not to mention the harrowing picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, have spurred on an outcry for more to be done to help those fleeing the war.
Particular anger has focused on the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE), who have kept their doors to refugees firmly shut. Amid the criticism, it is important to remember that the Gulf states have not stood by and done nothing for Syria’s refugees.
The generosity of individuals has at times been quite remarkable. Individual charitable collections have totalled hundreds of thousands of dollars, and when workers at national industries (for example, Qatar Petroleum) were asked if they wished to place part of their salary aside every month for Syria’s refugees, many obliged.
The Gulf states have provided in total around $900m (£600m) through charitable organisations, and individual donations.
Source: The BBC
My comment:
The Gulf states are funding immigration to Europe. That is wonderful. Surely Germany are in need of some help.
Germany has now issued a warning. Other European nations must share in the burden of hosting refugees from Syria and Iraq.
The important question remains:
Why should other European nations listen to Germany and the Sultan of Qatar?
Is permitting a million Muslims from Syria into Europe the correct solution?
Does this sollution solve any problem?
If Germany was lead by politicians who use their common sense, the best option must quickly be tabled. All these people turn their head towards Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There is where their loyalty is. And there is where the correct sollution is found.
Inside the Saudi kingdom, there are hundreds of billions of US dollars available. Money that can be spent on their resettlement. There is also enough space, and even US Airbases that can protect them from further attacks by ISIL, Islamic Jihad, Hezb”Allah and al-Nusra.
Germany has many airports. All the Syrians can be offered a free ticket to Riyadh. The American and Saudis can jointly welcome them and give them food and shelter.
This is the obvious solution. The Americans have created this crisis. Inside the Saudi kingdom the Syrians will be taken care of by their own brethren, who share their culture and faith. So they jointly can bring an end to the civil war in their own camp, and not export the present carnage.
All other options will be a betrayal of Europe.
May Jesus the Messiah have mercy on all deceived souls.
Written by Ivar
News that matters 
Dear Ivar, its a shade you don’t deepen the hot questions arisen in your blog. We are seriously involved in such global turmoil, explaining it with only the usual common opinions and prejudice. To expand your question which now is on the mouth of many “experts”, and to find a plausible origin of that, it would costed only a simple search in the web, to understand why Saudi Arabia now, is pleasing Putin’s propaganda agenda, doing the best to send in Europe the refugees everyone now, righteously, believe to be hosted in Saudi Arabia – and the answer is always lying in the never-sufficiently celebrated 1 Timothy 6:10 (the capital letters are mine):
“RUSSIA flirts with SAUDI Arabia as OPEC pain deepens
KREMLIN energy tsar says OPEC may have to ditch its low-price policy within months. But Russia needs to cut output quietly too ” [from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk%5D.
The news is of ….. TWO days ago: 3:15PM BST 06 Sep 2015. Notice how the journalist is reporting the news from CERNOBBIO, Italy, where TWO days ago there was an economical meeting of Italian capitalists who applauded very loudly the economical policy of Matteo Renzi, a well known Catholic who usually goes in Sardinia, to be “spiritually” adviced by Fr. Enrico Deidda SJ…..
” Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.”…..
Will Israel supply intel to Putin’s forces now in Syria?
“Written byMichael Weiss Ridin’ Dirty09.10.151:05 AM ET
Putin Sends His Dirty War Forces to Syria
The Kremlin isn’t sending just any troops to prop up the Assad regime. It’s dispatching units that spearheaded Russia’s slow-rolling invasion of Ukraine.
………
“It is not clear what Russian intends to actually do. However, Russia has generally not exercised restraint in military confrontations.”
A oft-cited fear in the U.S. is that Russia won’t target ISIS, or only ISIS, but also Free Syrian Army rebels who may be working with the CIA or Pentagon.” [From: The Daily Beast].
I read a article where Bibi said he would NOT let the refugees into Israel because he knows many are ISIS fighters included. HE also told syria if they tried to attack he woud LEVEL them. and we know soon enough that Demascus will be no more, G-d says , in one hour at night it is gone..
From Revelation, chapter 17
In verse 17,3 we can read about a WOMAN sitting upon a scarlet coloured BEAST in the WILDERNESS/DESERT. In verse 17,15 we read about a WHORE sitting by MANY WATERS. These two women are sitting in total different places. For me it´s diffucult to understand that these two women are one and the same, even beeing the RCC.
In my opinion the WHORE likely could be Europe-EU:
17,1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great WHORE that sitteth upon many waters:
17,2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
17,15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the WHORE sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
17,16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the WHORE, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17,17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Peace to you.
In order to determine the identity of the woman and why she is described we need to look throughout scripture to help us understand some things.
In verse 17,3 we can read about a WOMAN sitting upon a scarlet coloured BEAST in the WILDERNESS/DESERT.
Beast is an empire,
red is the colour of communism, not necessarily russia just the ideology of that type of system of government.
The wilderness/dessert, a period of time of famine of the Word.
The woman is the church of the one world religion, authorised to control the morality of the single state.
Verse 15
17,15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the WHORE sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
The verse above explains the waters are ‘peoples, and multitudes, and nations and tongues’.
Recall that it says in scripture that ‘living waters’ come out of Him.
Waters = words = languages.
The Whore has influence over all the peoples of all ethnicities.
She sits at the UN and the UN sits up and takes notice.
Watch because the pope is due to speak at the UN I am led to understand, in the not to distant future.
Throughout history, pagan ideology has been used to control the masses by government,
Watch however.
Because the Whore is eventually made desolate and left naked.
When the one world religion has served it’s purpose, and as it’s moral controls become unbearable for those in power to abive by, they will reject her.
The pope has spoken about redistribution of wealth.
The wealthy are in power, they are the ones whose money he would like to redistribute, whilst the RCC is one of the riches organisations on earth.
Perhaps the government finally wakes up and realises she is sat on wealth that should also be redistributed and they plunder her.
Keep watching.
Allistar
Peace
Your interpretation of passages in Revelation can be found in many commentaries who’s writers have a dispensationalist
bent in there beliefs. Since when does red mean communism in scripture. woman in scripture can mean something other than the church. Even in the context of
The Revelation passage that is cited. Their is so much of this going on and it’s caused great confusion. Dispensationalist try in every way to link the things happening today as end times prophecy. They have done it in every decade, in every century
Since it’s teaching began.
Revelation 1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, The way I understand this passage is that the Revelation of Jesus Christ that was being made known to John by the angel that was sent to him by Christ were soon to take place.
How soon is soon? If the things in The Revelation have not happened yet then soon is more than 2000 years and still
Getting longer. I don’t know about you but to me soon means near, at hand. The revelation was a letter written by John circulated to the churches of Asia Minor. At that time to let them know what was coming down soon.
How do you see it?
Peace to you Todd.
Take a look at the quote you included from Revelation 1.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John
Now read what you wrote.
The revelation was a letter written by John circulated to the churches of Asia Minor.
The way I see it is the way it is written.
After the resurrection, Jesus met with his disciples in various places, then ascended to heaven and sits at His Right hand.
There is a search in heaven to find someone qualified to open a sealed book, Jesus, the Lamb of God who was sacrificed is found worthy of the job.
Jesus opens the book, He then sends an angel with an interpretation of it’s contents to John who is instructed to write down what he is shown.
John is not the author, Jesus Christ is the author, John is the scribe who obediently wrote what he was told to write.
The Bible is the inspired Word of God we read, and Revelation is the Words of Christ given to John not a letter from John to the churches though Christ includes letters to the Churches in Asia minor.
God the Father, gave the sealed book to His Son who had through His obedience not only provided salvation through His blood, He also qualified to open the seals of the book. God gave it to Jesus to give to a particular group of people. That is also revealed in the passage you quoted.
“which God gave him to show to his servants”.
‘the things that must soon take place’.
I have spaced the above for a reason.
Revelation reveals the things which must ‘soon’ take place but only to ‘his servants’.
Since Revelation was recorded obediently by John a servant of Christ, for future servants of Christ, Christ has revealed to His servants things that would happen ‘soon’ in their lifetimes and with each generation of servants, understanding has grown as the time of His return gets nearer.
I believe ‘soon’ is relative to the lifetime of the individual obedient servant of Christ.
Even then, we read in scripture.
To whom a lot is given, a lot is expected of him and to whom a little is given, a little is expected of him.
Therefore, an individual might be an obedient servant of whom a little is expected and his understanding will ensure he is able to serve in the capacity he has been given.
Do you know why Jesus spoke in parables?
Allistair
Thank you for your response.
You are gifted at writing and explaining. So much more than
I. As you stated ; the revelation of
Jesus Christ which God the father
Gave him because he was certainly
Qualified was given to him to show his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it (the Revelation ) known by sending his
Angel to his servant John who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Christ, even to all that he saw.
John was a servant and Jesus chose him to write down the things that were, are and are to come.
This is definitely the words of God.
They are inspired and John certainly wrote them down for Christ’s servants to read and hear.
For the time is near.
Their is obviously an urgency to get
These things written and read aloud because Jesus said the time is near.
No arguing any of that.
Question that raises is who are the servants? John was obviously one
Because he bore witness of the word of God who is Christ and to the testimony of Christ. Is this the criteria that qualifies one to be a servant. If so then none of us would
Meet the requirement. So who are the servants that need to read and hear this revelation.? I think it is believers.
This writing was distributed among the seven churches.
To answer your question about why
Jesus spoke in parables?
Matt. 13: 10-17 explains it quite clearly. I know that Ivar doesn’t like long comments, and I want to respect his wishes regarding that so I’ll stop for now but resume later
Allistair
I want to clarify who the servants are. They are obedient believers
Peace to you Todd.
You are correct, Ivar doesn’t like long comments.
Matt 14 verses 10 – 17 does not answer the question concerning why Jesus spoke in parables.
Jesus taught this.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all things will be added to you..
Hi Allistair
These were the words of Jesus
“This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand”. http://esv.to/Matt13.13
Those verses I mentioned Matt 13: 10-17 explain why he spoke in parables
Peace to todd.
Your reply is correct.
Always remember, many sat and listened to Jesus.
Scripture teaches, do not be hearers of the Word only, but be doers, lest you deceive yourself.
Wherever scripture teaches an action, act.
Then the Helper will help you find the answers to your questions.
May God watch over you, in the name of His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Allistair
Thank you and God’s blessing to you