spreading 3 angels' messages
It is funny to me, that in many SE Asian countries, people will put things they worship up at the highest place in their homes. So in many places you can see pics of kings and queens or dead heroes or ancestors or little shrines or idols up near the ceiling.
But in modern times there are new gods. Usually their names are Toshiba, Daikin, Samsung, LG, Mitsubishi, or Carrier, and they continually give out blessings of cool air 🙂
Still haven’t firmly decided what to do with the 1858gc anime. Should i have it made in Flash (2D), for around 40,000usd, or go all the way with Maya (3D), for probably around 130-150,000usd?
What to do?
I met David Gates 2 weeks ago, and he and several others gave encouragement about the anime project as a whole, so i really got more impetus to do SOMETHING — but which one would be best??????
Should i put this post in “travel spreading 1858gc”, or in “daily rambliniscings”? I do hope to meet someone in Laos who is interested in this precious book, but the main purpose is to get a 90 visa to stay in Thailand longer. Hope i can catch a train Saturday evening, and come back on Tuesday.
Your prayers are requested, for safety of course, and also to meet someone interested in this 2nd best book in the world 🙂
Last Sabbath a little kids’ group came to our church and did some songs. I got up and walked out. After they were done, i went back in. After a bit, they got up and did some more. I went out again.
After lunch, a western pastor came up and said that he understood why i walked, but that the better way is to work with the people, and slowly get them to see that the worldly type music is not the best. I politely disagreed.
What lifted my heart so much, and gave evidence of doing the right thing, was that one of the directors of that childrens’ choir is someone i know, someone i thot was quite strong in the faith. She confided that she was struggling with this, and that her children in the choir were not comfortable either. She thanked me, saying how this really helped solidify in her heart that her instinct about the music was correct, and she assured me that the group has already made plans to have her be the sole choir director, and she will see that the songs are more Christian.
It is a wonderful plan they have, as the Thai people go out of their way for children, even giving up their seats on busses to them!! They usually don’t want to hear about Jesus from adults, but from little kids, they can hardly resist 🙂
May we always make a stand for truth, in love, asking “What Would Jesus Do?”
There sure was a mean, biting one while i was riding the bus last Friday. Since it is not decent, and probably jailable, i just sat there and took it while the little critter was biting me in sensitive areas. About an hour later when i got off, i went to the bathroom to find red welts all over. Then the itching started. Funny that i’ve only been bitten by one thing on my long 22-month travel, and then two nites before this, and again.
Buying some caladryl lotion and a huge can of ant spray, along with some chalk seems to have stopped the critters. Sorry to see several hundred dead ones in my room, but would’ve been even sorrier if even one more of them had bitten me. I was really thinking that if i would have been bitten around 7 – 10 more times, i might have to go to the hospital or something, as they REALLY ITCH! haha
All finished. No more travelling to spread the 1858 edition of The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels. Danny has found a place he has to call “home” when people ask where he lives. sigh…….
It was almost 22 months from October 25, 2005 when i left Japan, to August 14, 2007 when i moved into a little room on the 5th floor of a nondescript apt building around 25km from the heart of Bangkok.
Since last nite was my first nite there, it still seems like i’m travelling, but i know soon it will feel like, well, feel like,,,,,,,,,, probably where i’ve lived all my life. ick. The smells and some of the sights in a huge city are better left on a tv screen than in 3d. But here i am, and i thank God. Very much. I had many, many precious experiences that i would not trade for any other kind of experience that i can imagine. It has been beyond-words wonderful to meet many people who are on-fire to spread the Three Angels’ Messages, and walk the straight and narrow path.
Thank you Lord for leading me to so many people, and thank you people, especially true Brothers and Sisters in Christ, for taking an interest in studying God’s words for yourselves, and being interested in spreading these words to others.
May God use me here in Bangkok, in Thailand, and all thru SE Asia as i live and work here, and Lord, if there is another chance to travel for you, please use me.
Third day, next to last, and busiest from terms of selling and promoting 1858gc books.
There were a few people interested, but not the hundreds that i had somehow imagined. But three people bot packs of 10, and then…..
I went to eat the first all-you-can-eat meal in over 10 days and sat next to a man whose first words were “how can i get a case of those books!!!!!
The 2007 Southern Asia-Pacific Division ASI convention is running from the 10th to the 13th. I went to the location – Twin Towers Hotel – by bus, and walked the last 20 minutes carrying probably around 15kg of stuff. I was probably the 3rd or 4th person there to set up a booth. Each one is 3m by 3m, and don’t know quite how God worked it out, but it looks like i have the best one in the whole place (but i might be prejudiced) 🙂
Everyone reading this, please pray fervently for me during this time, that the Lord will meld the attendees’ hearts to mine, that we will all desire from the bottom of hearts to know more about the words he gave his prophet to write, and that these words will get spread in many languages, and if it is his will – that this precious 1858 Great Controversy book can be made into a full-length movie.
I also need a prayer to be able to find a key to stay in the little room at church here.
Oh yes, the very first 5 copies of the 1858 edition of The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels came off the copy machine tonite – sweet! Now to upload to:
This is an answer to prayer. There was a Taiwanese man studying in America to become a pastor who i got in contact with on the internet in 2001, and he translated the 1858 Great Controversy book into Chinese, only wanting as payment a Japanese version of the Bible which i gladly sent him. I did notice some things in his translation which made me very hesitant to even put it on the internet, let alone print it. For example, the title of the book he translated “The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels” as just “The Great Controversy”. He also did (didn’t do) some other things as this email received today shows.
About 10 days ago in Malaysia i met a young Malaysian lady fluent in Chinese who showed a great knowledge of, and desire to spread Spirit of Prophecy material. When asked if she was interested in translating this 1858gc book, she showed eagerness, and praise God, today she sends me this email!
After having it translated poorly once, then promised to be translated by a lady in Vietnam and a pastor in Malaysia, finally it looks like things are moving forward to get this book into Mandarin. This encouragement is just what i need before going to the ASI convention and displaying this book in the various languages tomorrow. Thank you Jesus 🙂
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I guess you’ll be really pleased to read this: I’ve actually started translating the 1858 “GC”. So far, I’ve finished the title, the table of content, biographical sketch and the foreword.
The Chinese translation that you gave me is really a poor one. It doesn’t have a table of content. He added his own words in the foreword. He wrote that there’re the 1858, 1884, 1888 versions of the “GC”. I didn’t see the same in the English version.
Since he’s a Taiwanese, he used the traditional version of Chinese font in his translation. I’m using the simplified version since all Chinese in the world except the Taiwanese are using it. So, I can’t just make improvement on his work. I’ve to start all over from scratch. However, I did go through the correspondent portions of his translation while I’m working on mine.
I’ll try my best though I can’t tell you for sure when I’ll finish the translation. I’ve been quite free most of the time prior to
meeting you, but more “work” has been given me since the end of July.
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edited 2016-2-10 to add:
The Chinese Great Controversy was put up on the net last May. Please read my blog post about it:
http://great-controversy-movie.com/blog/?p=921
基督及他的天使们
和
撒旦及他的天使们
之间的
大争战
My first Sabbath in Bangkok as a live-here type personality was quite nice except for a tear in the pants. Three of us worshipped on Friday evening, and while the furniture looks lovely, the nails sticking up stuck it up my seat, and my most expensive item bot for myself since leaving Japan in October 2005 except for the computer now has a tear in it 🙁
Sabbath morning i was invited to give the sermon, and i did to all 10-11 gathered. I gave it on my personal life testimony, and on the 3 distinctive doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists. Most of the people are Filipino, with 3 Korean, and 1 Thai included. Later i was told that one of the young men was not SDA, and that this subject was good for him to get to consider the SDA faith. May God lead him into all truth.
There was no cooking on the Sabbath, for which i was very pleasantly surprised. The noodle salad was good, and the watermelon was excellent. That kept my mind clear for AY meeting in the afternoon, where we sang songs, i showed pics and videos of my trips, and of course the anime of the 1858gc book, and a moral story was told. A very pleasant first Sabbath as a Bangkokian.
Should be running around like a chicken with my head cut off, but instead spent most of the day scratching my head for the perverseness of one computer on a 3-computer network refusing to print to the network printer. I felt great when i got the other 2 working, and still wonder what i did wrong for the 3rd one….
It felt good to get out and go to BigC, a Walmart-like shopping centre, and buy some stuff. Ink cartridges are behind locked glass, and the employee with the key looked at me like a potential thief, at least it seemed. He ushered me over carefully to a cashier, where i waited for the lady for around 3 minutes. Finally the key-man came over and said this cashier was closed, and i should go to the front of the store. I didn’t even feel anything. Guess that means i’m almost Thai-ascized. Things you could not imagine in Japan…..Good and bad. Like the bus ticket taker who let me ride for free the other day because she didn’t have change for a 100baht bill. Hmm, maybe i could ride everywhere for free if i flashed a 1,000baht bill???
I got my first junk food in quite a while – green pea curls – buy one at 18baht (53cents) and get one free. That, along with a bag of 5baht rice, 6baht tofu, and 5baht expired wing beans (raw), along with a touch of ketchup, formed my meal in my guest room at the school. Yummy while listening to Thai lessons on my computer 🙂
Looking for a place to…..
live.
Seems surreal, to look for a place to call “home”, a place where i can know i have to go back to whenever, whatever. Feels very strange. Most of the places were 5 story apts., with no elevator. The going deal here in the Minburi suburb of Bangkok, is that the first 3 floors will have air-con, and the top two only a fan. All rooms are just a 4-square “one-room mansion” as they would say in Japan, with a toilet/shower, and tiny balcony to splash water around and hang clothes out to dry. There is no kitchen. The only big difference between rooms, aside from air-con/not air-con, is that while most rooms come furnished, some do not. The price range was from 3,800baht/month for a place with lift and internet and 24-hour guard etc., to 2,700baht for the average one, to 1,800baht for a small, non-furnished spot up on the 5th floor. Yes, you guessed it, that is the one i want. Should i jump on it now, or wait until next week when i will first need it?
It seems a bit strange that i can earn more in one day than a month rent costs…. But i’m not looking forward to a tiny cubicle again. Oh well, i hope to save as much as possible, and help spread God’s words quickly, so he can take me to my mansion in the new Jerusalem 🙂
It was confusing for me to try to learn how to read Thai, and see “Bangkok” on many road and bus signs, and yet not be able to make out the letter for “B”. Now i know why – the city is known by the Thais as “Krung Thep”, and the official name is so long, that it is in the Guiness book of world records, and is translated something like “eternal city of angels dedicated to eternal king blah blah blah about Indian gods etc. etc.
Feels good to be able to understand some Thai letters for real now 🙂
Just uploaded a video of the 1000 Voices concert in Kota Kinabalu on July 15th. Mostly it shows the sales of the 1858 Great Controversy book and other literature there, as that is why i went to Sabah in the first place 🙂
Wednesday i went to the printer and paid him the 2,300myr for the 2,000 Adventist calendars and 1,500 each Bahasa Malaysia and English health pamphlets. I was wondering how to pay all that, when my brother kindly offered to do it, as “the work needs to be done”. Somehow tho, i could scrape it up after finding 300myr in my Japanese note stash, and decided that it has been long enough of me pining for the Japanese islands, and decided to cash in 3 FujiZawas (10,000jpy notes).
Somehow it seems that God’s jar of oil never runs dry 🙂
Now the big thing, like a mountain, is how to pay for the animation of the 1858gc book……
Our God is a rich God!!!