Holy Land

Indonesia is one of the countries with abundance of natural resources with large populations. According to World Bank (2013) Indonesia is lower middle income country with GDP around 868.3 billion US dollar and the population is 249.9 million, while poverty headcount ration at national poverty line is 11.3% on 2014. The contention appear that this wealth resources country get the benefit or even get worse with the plenty of their natural resources. The economic growth in Indonesia in period…

control over water, land, and oil has economically and socially changed the world. They have been used to secure power because of how important they are to society. The consequences for wrongly abusing these resources have shown to be a lot more trouble then it was worth. Where natural resources are not at the heart of the conflict, their availability can compound the problems created by political, social, and economic conflict. Water is a necessity of life,…

Exploration has many effects not only on organisms, but also the atmosphere. . By exploring for natural resources such as oil and gas, we contribute to global warming. Burning fossil fuels depletes the ozone layer and encourages global warming. Findings show “Air pollution near ground level, and acid precipitation, are already causing widespread injury to humans, forests, and crops” (Grossman & Bryner). Another impact on the atmosphere and on the elements of life can be seen in the uranium New…

into America faced multiple challenges including conquering the land, battling natives tribes in a bid to secure settlements, while at the same time trying to stay true to their religious, entrepreneurial, and socio-ethical roots acquired in their former lands back in Europe. Through their writings, the soldier, administrator and adventurer John Smith, Poet Anne Bradstreet and Governor William Bradford depict an America whose lands were initially hard to subdue and inhabited by a people wary of…

Leviticus The book in the Pentateuch that I choose to write on is Leviticus. This is the third book of the Bible in the Old Testament, and was originally called the Third Book of Moses. It is easy to assume that the genre for book of Leviticus to be law, but it is in fact a book detailing the history of the Israelites the first year after the exodus. The authorship for this book is not specifically named but is strongly inferred to be Moses, due to the original title and the fact that…

heavily involved. Although Zionism had been an religious/emotional longing for the Holy Land tied up in Jewish culture since the Diaspora, it did not begin to become widely politicized until the 19th century. (source?) The religious revivalism of the 1700s and the early 1800s led many Americans and Europeans to be brought up on the romanticization of Holy Land, and to the Jews, Palestine had always been that land of milk and honey. in addition, the Western ideas of and interests in Palestine…

Egypt and because they were did not believe that God was going to keep his promise to them, they ended up in the wilderness for thirty-eight years. The book is broke down into first and second generations. Moses had twelve spies to go seek out the land Canaan, but when they came back the people did not believe, which resuted in the exodus event. When the second generation came along, Moses wanted to make sure that they believed in what God was trying to do for them. He emphasized the need for…

3:20) (Holy Bible, 2012) This is the love of God. I think about what caused that trip to take forty years, was the love of God not enough? We know that it was. God 's love corrects and teaches also. He cares that we get it right with him in our heart. Moses was appointed to deliver them out and he allowed them to move him out of obedience just to shut their mouths. Wow! We can all identify with this in our lives, we compromise for peace sake! Not good! What started out as a Promised Land trip…

by speaking directly to them. God’s presence can also be felt by the Israelites, the house of Odeb-edom and King David through the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark was a moving tabernacle to house the Lord while the Israelites searched for the Promised Land in the desert for more than 70 years. While it is debated whether the Ark was meant to be a footstool or throne for the Lord, it is clear that it was a sacred resting place for the…

hearkened unto him, and did as Jehovah commended Moses.” Deut 34: 9. This quote means that Joshua was the chosen one, before he died, Moses had given Joshua everything he needed to be a leader. Joshua received power from Moses and he was full of the holy spirit. The Israelites listened to him and followed what the Lord told Moses. A great leader must know how to command. Joshua was excellent in this filed. Joshua had all qualities required to be a good leader. In the bible, Joshua commanded…