Isaiah 2:4 "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
I just started s study of Isaiah and after reading this Scripture above, it came to me, just think of all the money spent on weapons of all kinds for wars between nations and/or sects, all of it, if all that money was used instead to feed people all over the earth. So I am doing some research online for estimates...
Interesting article dated 08/24/2015 "Killer facts: The scale of the global arms trade" - at Amnesty International online :
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/08/killer-facts-the-scale-of-the-global-arms-trade/
(A note here, Of course I have heard of Amnesty International, but I am not familiar with the organization at all, their reliability, their accuracy, etc. It does not appear to be a Christian-based missionary organization, according to their own statement. "...We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion." Please understand that I am only interested in getting information regarding international armament expense, as part of my study of Isaiah and Isaiah 2:4 in particular.)
12/12/2016 article "$1,570,000,000,000: how much the world spent on arms this year":
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/12/1570000000000-much-world-spent-arms-year/
05/02/2018 “Global military spending remains high at $1.7 trillion”:
https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2018/global-military-spending-remains-high-17-trillion
No date on this one, but a chart by nation, spent in 2010-2011:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/apr/17/military-spending-countries-list
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute graph “World military expenditure, 1988-2017”
https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/arms-transfers-and-military-spending/military-expenditure
Now I am all for the Second Amendment to our beloved Constitution, so don’t have cows. This posting is in no way a reflection on our right as individuals to bear arms – that would be another conversation.
By the way, I use Norton Safe Search which screens websites, so all links in anything I post to SS have been graded “OK” and “Secure”:
http://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=101881&l=dis&q=Norton+Safe+Search&ld=16000
Anyway, this came about, as I said, from Isaiah 2:4 lighting up off the page to my brain, but it also brings to my mind how I am sick to my stomach of seeing all those ads on TV about starving children, and what makes me even sicker - are those organizations legitimate? Believe it or not, not all 501C organizations are. Is there a way of finding out?
Not to mention NASA's $19.1 billion budget for 2018 – I’d be interested to know just how much of that is purposefully dedicated to searching for “life” on other planets. I wonder what He thinks about that...?
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170523-nasa-full-2018-budget-request.html
Maranatha, Lord Jesus.
I just started s study of Isaiah and after reading this Scripture above, it came to me, just think of all the money spent on weapons of all kinds for wars between nations and/or sects, all of it, if all that money was used instead to feed people all over the earth. So I am doing some research online for estimates...
Interesting article dated 08/24/2015 "Killer facts: The scale of the global arms trade" - at Amnesty International online :
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/08/killer-facts-the-scale-of-the-global-arms-trade/
(A note here, Of course I have heard of Amnesty International, but I am not familiar with the organization at all, their reliability, their accuracy, etc. It does not appear to be a Christian-based missionary organization, according to their own statement. "...We are independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion." Please understand that I am only interested in getting information regarding international armament expense, as part of my study of Isaiah and Isaiah 2:4 in particular.)
12/12/2016 article "$1,570,000,000,000: how much the world spent on arms this year":
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/12/1570000000000-much-world-spent-arms-year/
05/02/2018 “Global military spending remains high at $1.7 trillion”:
https://www.sipri.org/media/press-release/2018/global-military-spending-remains-high-17-trillion
No date on this one, but a chart by nation, spent in 2010-2011:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/apr/17/military-spending-countries-list
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute graph “World military expenditure, 1988-2017”
https://www.sipri.org/research/armament-and-disarmament/arms-transfers-and-military-spending/military-expenditure
Now I am all for the Second Amendment to our beloved Constitution, so don’t have cows. This posting is in no way a reflection on our right as individuals to bear arms – that would be another conversation.
By the way, I use Norton Safe Search which screens websites, so all links in anything I post to SS have been graded “OK” and “Secure”:
http://nortonsafe.search.ask.com/web?qsrc=2417&o=101881&l=dis&q=Norton+Safe+Search&ld=16000
Anyway, this came about, as I said, from Isaiah 2:4 lighting up off the page to my brain, but it also brings to my mind how I am sick to my stomach of seeing all those ads on TV about starving children, and what makes me even sicker - are those organizations legitimate? Believe it or not, not all 501C organizations are. Is there a way of finding out?
Not to mention NASA's $19.1 billion budget for 2018 – I’d be interested to know just how much of that is purposefully dedicated to searching for “life” on other planets. I wonder what He thinks about that...?
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170523-nasa-full-2018-budget-request.html
Maranatha, Lord Jesus.
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