14 Jul 09 Age of the Patriachs in the Bible

 

 We can find out the ages of the patriachs, e.g. Adam, Noah, Abraham and Joseph by looking at the corresponding bible verses.

When we plot the ages of these patriachs into a time line chart we find very interesting facts.

These facts help to explain how the Word of God get passed down from generation to generation.

I remember how my grandmother used to tell me a Chinese rhyme. I still remember the rhyme and found myself telling my children. This is how information gets passed down from generation to generation. We don’t have television, internet, emails and books like what we have now.

People stick around in the family and the places they live  and listen to each other. The patriachs who live a very long life will impart their knowledge to their children. 

• Abraham was born only 11 years after Noah died, even though there are 10 generations difference.
• Shem, Noah’s son, was still living when Isaac lived. Abraham and Isaac would have been able to ask him about his experiences during the flood, the ark, etc. 
• The year Methuselah died, was the year the flood started (the 600^th year of Noah’s life).  
• Noah’s father could still talk to Adam.
• The oldest person ever live on earth is Methusaleh (969 years) 

Tags: Abraham, Adam, Age of man, Age of the patriachs, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Methusaleh, Noah

16 Jun 09 How long does it take to read the bible?

It takes 70 hours and 40 minutes to read the Bible at pulpit rate.

It takes 52 hours and 20 minutes to read the Old Testament.

It takes 18 hours and 20 minutes to read the New Testament.

In the Old Testament the Psalms take the longest to read: 4 hours and 28 minutes.

In the New Testament the Gospel of Luke takes 2 hours and 43 minutes to read.

Tags: Bible, read the bible

01 Jun 09 Foreign Reserve of Singapore

I did a search on Foreign Reserve of different countries on Wolfram Alpha and found some very interesting figures on foreign reserves of different countries.

Countries	Foreign Reserve in USD (Billion)
China	2033
Japan	954
Russia	435
Taiwan	296
India	250
France	204
South Korea	201
Brazil	197
Singapore	169
Hong Kong	166
Algeria	151
Germany	136
Thailand	106
Malaysia	104
Italy	104
Libya	99
Iran	97
Mexico	92
Poland	84
Turkey	83

Tags: Blogs, Foreign Reserve, insight, Life, tituslow, views

31 May 09 What I learnt about giving?

“A living church is a giving church.”

A young man said that he does not want to go to church because the pastor is always talkng about giving back to God. He could not understand the meaning of giving. Neither does he understand that a Christian need to give to be spiritually alive.

A wise old man told him this story:

” My wife and I spent so much on hospital and maternity care since my son was conceived. After he was borned we spent even more money. We had to buy new clothes, pampers, milk and toys.  Later we had to enroll him in kindergarten, schools and college. The cost of keeping my son alive and making sure he grows physically and in other skills kept going higher and higher till we wiped out our life savings.”

“Two years ago, my son died from a road traffic accident. All of a sudden our cost of living dropped dramatically and we were able to save more money for our retirement”, the old man continued his story.

Turning to the young man he asked, ” Would you rather that I continue to spend money and have my son by my side or have a bigger bank account with a dead child?”

“God prospers us not to raise our standard of living but to rasie our standard of giving”

The error of the false doctrine of Prosperity Gospel.-They preach that we should give so that God will give us back more for our selfish living

The correct doctrine is: We give and we get so that we can be more generous in giving

2 Corinthian 9: 9-11 (NIV)

As it is written:  “He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor;  his righteousness endures forever.”

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

“We give and get and we can’t out give God”

50% of Jesus’s parable deals with money and giving . Why? Because to many people, “money is their god”

Many people are financially strapped simply because they are not giving.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty.  The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.  (Proverb 11: 24-25)

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  (Luke 6:38)

We should give sacrificially

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. (2 Cor 8:9)

“Gladly I would make the floor my bed, a box, my chair, use another box for a table rather than suffer men to perish eternally for want of knowledge of Christ. ” CT Studd

Statistics about Christian Giving.

• 12 % of all born again believers give faithfully
• 65% of all born again believers give haphazardly
• 23% of all born again believers give nothing at all

 Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.  (CT Studd)

Tags: Blessing, Charity, Christian Giving, CT Studd, Generous, money, Tithings

27 May 09 Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 Billion Visitors

23 Jan 2009

I read this from Comscore website:

• Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of the 1 billion Internet Users
  China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World.
• 41 % globarl interenet user  are from Asia-Pacific region 

Total Worldwide Internet Audience: Regional Breakdown Ranked by Total Unique Visitors (000)* December 2008 Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Region	Total Unique Visitors (000)	Share of Total Worldwide Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide	1,007,730	100.0%
Asia Pacific	416,281	41.3%
Europe	282,651	28.0%
North America	185,109	18.4%
Latin America	74,906	7.4%
Middle East & Africa	48,783	4.8%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that, until we have a truly global network of interconnected people and ideas that transcend borders and cultural boundaries.”

Chinese Internet Audience Outranks U.S.

China represented the largest online audience in the world in December 2008 with 180 million Internet users, representing nearly 18 percent of the total worldwide Internet audience, followed by the U.S. (16.2 percent share) and Japan (6.0 percent share)

Top 15 Countries by Internet AudienceRanked by Total Unique Visitors (000)* December 2008 Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Country	Total Unique Visitors (000)	Share of Total Worldwide Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide	1,007,730	100.0%
China	179,710	17.8%
United States	163,300	16.2%
Japan	59,993	6.0%
Germany	36,992	3.7%
United Kingdom	36,664	3.6%
France	34,010	3.4%
India	32,099	3.2%
Russia	28,998	2.9%
Brazil	27,688	2.7%
South Korea	27,254	2.7%
Canada	21,809	2.2%
Italy	20,780	2.1%
Spain	17,893	1.8%
Mexico	12,486	1.2%
Netherlands	11,812	1.2%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

(Source: ComScore  w w w . c o m s c o r e . c o m Dec 2008)

Tags: 1 Billion internet users, Chinese Internet Audience Outranks U.S.

26 May 09 Staggering statistics about Youtube

1. 270 million visits per day
2. 20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
3. 3125 visits per second
4. 187500 visits per minute

Tags: Youtube

11 Apr 09 Fascinating numbers about Youtube

1. 45 terabytes of videos in Youtube
2. 1.73 billion of Youtube Views
3 70% of YouTube’s registered users are American
4. Roughly 50% are under 20 years
5 Total number of views is equivalent to 9,305 years
6. The number of videos grew 20% to 6.1 million in one month

The impact of Youtube is simply fascinating.

Tags: Idiot's Guide, Impact of Technology, Statistics, Youtube