The 3rd Bi-Millennium (Le troisième bi-millénaire)
Probably, it is time to review 2000's.
Has anything drastic occurred during the first decade in the third 2000 year period since departure of Abraham from Mesopotamia that could match the emergence of Christ Jesus in the first decade of the second bimillennium since the departure of Abraham from Mesopotamia being led by his God?
(In this context, the first year of our calender should be the year when Abram left Ur of Mesopotamia. The birth year of Christ Jesus should be 2000 or 2001 as you like. Hence, we are now in 4011. I strongly recommend Judaists, Christians, and Muslims to adopt this Abraham Calendar system that has stretched for 4011 years up till now.)
SECTION I: 2000's Terror
2001: The 9/11 attacks in Washington, D.C., New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania (2,992 killed)
2002: Bali bombings in Bali, Indonesia (202 killed)
2003: Istanbul bombings in Istanbul, Turkey (57 killed)
2004: Madrid train bombings (191 killed)
2004: Beslan school hostage crisis (334 killed)
2005: The 7/7 London bombings (56 killed)
2008: Mumbai attacks (175 killed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)
SECTION II: 2000's Assassinations
2001: Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi was assassinated by three Palestinian assailants, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
2004: Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the militant Islamist group Hamas, was killed in a targeted assassination in the Gaza Strip in an operation conducted by the Israeli Air Force.
2004: Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, known to be a critic of Islamic culture, was assassinated in Amsterdam.
2005: Former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri was assassinated as his motorcade drove past the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2007: Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)
SECTION III: 2000's Natural Disasters
2001: An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, killing more than 12,000.
2003: One of the worst heatwaves in recorded human history, as Europe was hit by a 40 °C (104 °F) heatwave killing thousands
2003: The massive Bam earthquake devastates southeastern Iran; over 40,000 people are reported killed.
2004: On December 26, the massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll stands at approximately 230,000 people dead or still missing.
2005: Hurricane Katrina nearly destroying New Orleans, followed by Hurricane Rita, which wreaked destruction along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
2005: The Kashmir (Pakistan and India) earthquake kills about 80,000 people.
2008: On May 12, over 69,000 are killed in central south-west China by an earthquake measuring 7.9 Moment magnitude scale. The epicenter was 90 kilometers (55 miles) west-northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan province.
2008: Over 146,000 in Burma/Myanmar are killed by Cyclone Nargis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)
SECTION IV: 2000's Economic Fiascoes
2007 - 2009: The rise in interest rates and the collapse of the housing market caused a wave of loan payment failures in the U.S. in 2007. The subsequent mortgage crisis caused a global financial crisis. Economic activity was severely affected around the world in 2008 and 2009,[88] with disastrous consequences for carmakers.
2008: During 2003, the price rose above $30, reached $60 by August 11, 2005, and peaked at $147.30 in July 2008. The recession caused demand for energy to shrink in late 2008 and early 2009 and the price plunged as well.
SECTION V: 2000's Politics
2001: George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States following a sharply contested election.
2001: Junichiro Koizumi was elected as prime minister of Japan to lead the nation for the next 5 years, gaining a higher approval rating, taking back some abductees from North Korea, and visiting the Yasukuni Shrine despite Chinese objections.
2008: Fidel Castro resigns in 2008 on health reasons. Castro's brother Raúl is elected to succeed him.
2009: Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, becoming the nation's first African American president.
2009: The conservative pro-American LDP, in power for almost 50 years in Japan, lost a general election to be replaced by the socialistic DPJ led by Yukio Hatoyama who however resigned as PM within a year for an Okinawa issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_(decade)
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The ideal state of mankind on the earth is of course for everybody to live the highest level of spiritual and material life.
It is very possible with the level of civilization mankind has achieved. But, reality is opposite.
It is because there are many factors, and the most important one is the American Dream.
The American Dream is the underlying cause of the 9/11 Terror of 2001 and the Financial Crisis of 2008, since Americans have tried to achieve the American Dream by leveraging crude oil in the Middle East and financial tricks on Wall Street. They have pursued their goal while neglecting religion and justice domestically and internationally. So, the decade of 2000's is a testing time for the Americans and the American Dream.
Regardless of judgment by the God, this decade has actually ended when President Mr. Barack Obama took on Osama bin Laden.
And another decade started with the 3/11 Disaster of Japan, including the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents. It is as if the God had punished Japan so that the Japanese would come to themselves and get prepared for its new role in the third bi-millennium, since Japan has already helped China become an economic power.
(A forgotten guitarist...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2oFESUMWhU)
Joh 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.