China possesses an old history of tattooing which dates back to the 12th century. Tattooing is locally known as Cshen or Wen Shen, which means “puncture the body”.
Many classic pieces of Chinese literature like Water Margin have mentioned tattooing.
Legend has it that Chinese YuehFei, who served the South Song Dynasty, felt discouraged and dejected as his field marshal betrayed the dynasty and teamed up with enemy forces. This incident was so devastating for him that he resigned and returned home with a heavy mind. It is the time when he was encouraged by his mother who reminded him that his first duty is to protect the nation. In order to reawaken his patriotism, she tattooed four characters on his back with a sewing needle — jinzhongbaoguo, which stands for something like “Serve his country with ultimate loyalty.”
Chinese tattoos are also associated with criminals at some point in Chinese history. There was the time when convicts were tattooed on the face as they were sent to a faraway land. The tattoos helped people that the person is convicted if he appeared publicly.
That was the blast from the past. Coming to today’s scenario, Chinese tattoos have become popular, even in the west. They are characterized by beautiful characters. They not only look aesthetically pleasing but also can be meaningful.
Here is a list of such Chinese tattoos to choose from.
Dragon Tattoo:
It would be fair to say that the dragon has become the face of Chinese culture. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be a popular tattoo. Although they are intimidating, Chinese people believed them the creature of good fortune and prosperity. We don’t know if this is a myth or fact, but one thing is for sure that dragons make an awesome tattoo design.
And there are many dragon tattoo designs to choose from while each one carries a special meaning.
Here is a list of some popular dragon tattoo designs along with their meaning.
• Asian Dragon or a Jade dragon stands for wisdom, prosperity, and power.
• Fairy Dragon denotes males and female duality in nature.
• Gothic Dragon is a dark styled dragon design standing for strength and power.
• Koi Dragon symbolizes ambition and persistence.
• Moon Dragon shows the relationship between nature and the subconscious.
• Ouroboros Dragon represents the cycle of life.
• Rising Dragon is believed to help overcome a tough phase.
• Skull Dragon represents mortality and death.
• Sleeping Dragon is a creature of potential or strength and power that are resting.
• Tiger Dragon stands for conflicting duality, like yin and yang. The tiger stands for femininity while the dragon represents masculinity.
• Tribal Dragon represents a spiritual connection of ones with nature.
Chinese Calligraphy or Characters:
Chinese characters are one of the popular tattoo designs and have been in vogue for long. They beautifully represent passion, emotions and lifetime as a tattoo. You can get them in several scripts. One of the popular scripts is Seal which makes calligraphy mysterious and decorative. They look more like pictograms than words. Another popular calligraphy is a cursive script or Grass style writing. It is known for its abstract charm and vivacity.
Many celebrities like Mary J Blige, Sher Melanie Brown, Julia Roberts, and David Beckham have sported Chinese typography tattoos.
Make sure to choose a reliable Chinese tattoo parlor to get it done. This is because a slight twist in the phrase can change the entire meaning.
Chinese Koi Fish:
Chinese Koi Fish design represents growth and persistence as the koi fish is said to swim upstream its way to a special gate, at which point it turns into a powerful dragon. Koi fish designs are also popular among Japanese.
Koi Fish design has two variants—upstream and downstream. The fish in upstream position means that the person is struggling its way to find a solution while downstream position means that the person has overcome the problems.
Besides, koi fish denotes to good luck, long life, prosperity, masculinity, power, and independence. The colors of koi fish also carry several meanings, for example,
• Red stands for the connotation of love, power, and bravery.
• Black encourages for overcoming an obstacle.
• Blue color represents masculinity and is associated with reproduction.
• Yellow color denotes fortune and wealth as it is the color of the gold.
Chinese Buddha Tattoo
Chinese Buddha is also a popular tattoo design. It represents love, peace, and purity of life. From a golden Buddha, Buddha with Bodhi Tree to the laughing Buddha, there are a variety of Buddha tattoos to choose from.
Here are three popular Buddha tattoo designs to choose from…
• Amitabh Buddha is recognized by the opened position of his hands. It stands for enlightenment in the lives.
• The Laughing Buddha or Budai shows a smiling man with a bald head and a big belly. He often carries a cloth sack. Did you know that the Laughing Buddha is not a Buddha? However, it makes one of the cool tattoo designs to choose from.
• Shakyamuni is depicted as Buddha with a slender built and recognized by curly hair in gold shades. It represents compassion.
Chinese Phoenix or Fenghuang:Yin and Yang:
Fenghuang is a Chinese counterpart of Greek mythological bird Phoenix. Like its Greek counterpart, the bird is said to reborn from its ashes after death. The Chinese Phoenix stands for prosperity, grace, and virtue. Besides, it also represents the beginning of something new. Make sure to have flames in the backdrop of the tattoo as it can be mistaken by onlookers for some kind of exotic creature.
Yin and Yang:
Yin-Yang symbol is ruling every form of art, be it a logo, graffiti or a tattoo. They are the combined form one swirl paired with another in the opposite position. Yin is a dark swirl that stands for feminism while the yang is known for growth, passion, and masculinity. Simply put, they stand for the confluence of feminine and masculine qualities. Or you can say that Yin Yang is all about how the interaction of opposites can develop peace and harmony. In fact, it is the center of Chinese philosophy.
The Yin Yang Symbol has many variants when it comes to tattooing. And they can be placed anywhere across the body. You can get a matching design with a friend or a lover. For example, yin is placed on your arm while yang in inked on your partner’s arm. It also looks trendy when taken in a watercolor form. Likewise, it looks unique if it is dotted with the moon and the stars on one side of the symbol.
So these are cool Chinese tattoo designs to choose from. Like we have said before, make sure to get them done from the right Chinese tattoo artist. This is because not all are familiar with the Chinese language. Maybe most tattoo artists just copy the design and draw it on the skin without knowing the meaning or significance.
One more thing—Chinese tattoos, like other tattoos, are painful. They cause pain and discomfort. As an added woe, it makes lasts hours if you go for larger tattoos. Make sure to apply a numbing cream to the area to be tattooed to feel no pain.
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In December of 2017, Donald Trump made history by recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Why is this big news? Because by this the Jewish people of Israel are now able to press forward in bringing about the Third Temple prophesied in the Bible.
Jewish Rabbis have publicly announced that their Messiah will be revealed in the coming years who will be a leader and spiritual guide to all nations, gathering all religions under the worship of one God.
Biblical prophecy tells us that this Jewish Messiah who will take the stage will be the antichrist “who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God” (2 Thessalonians 2:4). For a time he will bring about a false peace, but “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15)…then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
More importantly, the power that runs the world wants to put a RFID microchip in our body making us total slaves to them. This chip matches perfectly with the Mark of the Beast in the Bible, more specifically in Revelation 13:16-18:
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”
Referring to the last days, this could only be speaking of a cashless society, which we have yet to see, but are heading towards. Otherwise, we could still buy or sell without the mark amongst others if physical money was still currency. This Mark couldn’t be spiritual because the word references two different physical locations. If it was spiritual it would just say in the forehead. RFID microchip implant technology will be the future of a one world cashless society containing digital currency. It will be implanted in the right-hand or the forehead, and we cannot buy or sell without it. Revelation 13:11-18 tells us that a false prophet will arise on the world scene doing miracles before men, deceiving them to receive this Mark. Do not be deceived! We must grow strong in Jesus. AT ALL COSTS, DO NOT TAKE IT!
“Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name” (Revelation 14:9-11).
People have been saying the end is coming for many years, but we needed two key things. One, the Third Temple, and two, the technology for a cashless society to fulfill the prophecy of the Mark of the Beast.
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“EITHER HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ULTIMATELY OWES ITS ORIGIN TO MINDLESS MATTER OR THERE IS A CREATOR…” – JOHN LENNOX
We all know God exists. Why? Because without Him, we couldn’t prove anything at all. Do we live our lives as if we cannot know anything? No. So why is God necessary? In order to know anything for certain, you would have to know everything, or have revelation from somebody who does. Who is capable of knowing everything? God. So to know anything, you would have to be God, or know God.
A worldview without God cannot account for the uniformity and intelligibility of nature. And why is it that we can even reason that God is the best explanation for this if there is no God? We are given reason to know or reject God, but never to know that He does not exist.
It has been calculated by Roger Penrose that the odds of the initial conditions for the big bang to produce the universe that we see to be a number so big, that we could put a zero on every particle in the universe, and even that would not be enough to use every zero. What are the odds that God created the universe? Odds are no such thing. Who of you would gamble your life on one coin flip?
Is there evidence that the Bible is the truth? Yes. Did you know that the creation accounts listed in the book of Genesis are not only all correct, but are also in the correct chronological order? That the Bible doesn’t say the Earth was formed in six 24-hour days but rather six long but finite periods of time? That the Bible makes 10 times more creation claims than all major “holy” books combined with no contradictions, while these other books have errors in them? The Bible stood alone by concurring with the big bang saying, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1); and says our universe is expanding, thousands of years before scientists discovered these things. Watch a potential life-changing video on the front page of http://WWW.BIBLEFREEDOM.COM with Astronomer(PhD) Hugh Ross explaining all these facts based on published scientific data. He has authored many books, backed even by atheist scientists.
Jesus fulfilled more than 300 Messianic prophecies concerning His birth place, details of His life, His mission, His nature, His death, and His resurrection. He came to pay a debt that we could not, to be our legal justifier to reconcile us back to a Holy God; only if we are willing to receive Him: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23).
God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten son, so that whoever believes in Him, through faith, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. Jesus says if we wish to enter into life to keep the commands! The two greatest commands are to love God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind; and your neighbor as yourself. All the law hang on these commands. We must be born of and lead by the Holy Spirit, to be called children of God, to inherit the kingdom. If we are willing to humble ourselves in prayer to Jesus, to confess and forsake our sins, He is willing to give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking of Him; giving us a new heart, leading us into all truth!
Jesus came to free us from the bondage of sin. The everlasting fire was prepared for the devil and his angels due to disobedience to God’s law. If we do the same, what makes us any different than the devil? Jesus says unless we repent, we shall perish. We must walk in the Spirit, producing fruits of love and forgiveness, so we may not fulfill the lusts of the flesh being hatred, fornication, drunkenness and the like. Whoever practices such things will not inherit the kingdom (Galatians 5:16-26). If we sin, we may come before Jesus to ask for forgiveness (1 John 2:1-2). Evil thoughts are not sins, but rather temptations. It is not until these thoughts conceive and give birth by our hearts desire that they become sin (James 1:12-15). When we sin, we become in the likeness of the devil’s image, for he who sins is of the devil (1 John 3:8); but if we obey Jesus, in the image of God. For without holiness, we shall not see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).
The oldest religion in the world is holiness (James 1:27). What religion did Adam and Eve follow before the fall? Jesus, Who became the last Adam, what religion does He follow? Is He not holy? He never told us to follow any religion or denomination but to deny ourselves, take up our cross daily, and follow Him (Luke 9:23). There are many false doctrines being taught leading people astray. This is why we need the Holy Spirit for discernment. Unlike religion, holiness cannot be created. It is given to us from above by the baptism of the Spirit. Jesus is more than a religion; He is about having a personal relationship with the Father. Start by reading the Gospel of Matthew, to hear the words of God, to know His character and commandments. Follow and obey Jesus, for He is the way, the truth, and the life!
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