Cyclist To Pedal Across America To Raise Awareness of Japan’s Deprogramming Scandal

| NOVEMBER 30 2011

Atlanta resident Seijin Tranberg: "dream big."

Seijin Tranberg, a second-generation Unificationist, will pedal for social justice this winter in what he calls a “Tour De Cause” bicycle challenge aimed at bringing attention to the issue of faith-breaking in Japan. The tour will begin from his hometown in Atlanta, Georgia on December 15, 2011 and will end in Los Angeles in January, 2012.

A 22-year-old college junior in political science and international relations, Tranberg is the student body president at Georgia Gwinnett College. “The student body is about 8,000 students, and I help out with funding for all the student organizations on campus,” he said. “I like to consistently challenge myself to become a better person as a way to inspire others to do the same. I love dreaming big, and doing everything in my power to make them a reality. When I grow up, I'd like to think that I'm going to help save the world.”

Tranberg also keeps in touch with representatives of CARP (the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles) around the United States. “Georgia Gwinnett doesn’t have a CARP chapter on campus, but I try to live up to CARP’s ideals. My sister and I are the only Unificationists on campus, so we’re the only ones aware of the mission and vision of what CARP is. But we advocate for CARP’s ideals of internal and external excellence, creating a generation of peace, and using yourself and your time in college for the greater good. I feel that my bike trip is something that exemplifies the CARP vision.”

Tranberg shows off the bike and riding equipment that he will use for his cross-country "Tour De Cause."

Tranberg (right) was elected student body president at Georgia Gwinnett College in April, 2011.

The cycling trip totals to approximately 2,351 miles, and Tranberg says that he hopes to maintain an average of 60 miles a day. “I suspect that there will be some days when I’ll be pushed back, or I’ll get ahead, so I’ve given myself 45-50 days to do the actual trip,” he said. “I have to be in Los Angeles by January 31, 2012, because I’ll be departing for China the next day, where I’ll be studying abroad at the Beijing Language and Culture University. There I will study Chinese language and culture, but I’m also going to be taking a class in Chinese foreign policy.”

Tranberg is the second out of the six children of Mr. David and Mrs. Sumiko Tranberg, from the United States and Japan, respectively. “My parents were initially concerned about me when they heard that I was going to bike across the country, but when I told them that I was doing this to raise awareness on the faith-breaking issue taking place in Japan, they were very grateful,” said Tranberg. “My mother especially thanked me and has been very supportive. She’s never personally encountered deprogrammers, but as a native of Japan, she knows people who have been affected. I think the issue of faith-breaking is a very difficult one for any Japanese member. It’s their families, their brothers and sisters we’re talking about, people with a common heritage who are getting kidnapped and deprogrammed. We need to stop deprogramming from happening to not just Unificationists like me, but also to anyone who chooses to pursue a life of faith.”

As for the future, Tranberg is already well-aware of his career choice. “I definitely want to go to a top-tier graduate school. I want to get a doctorate and a Masters in public policy. Foreign policy is an area I’m particularly interested in, specifically U.S. foreign policy to East Asia.”

Follow Tranberg’s blog at http://tourdecause.blogspot.com

Contributed by Ariana Moon

Genesis 14 Abram Rescues Lot

Genesis 14

Abram Rescues Lot

 ¹ At the time when Amraphel was king of Shinar,^[a] Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goyim, ² these kings went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). ³ All these latter kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea Valley). ⁴ For twelve years they had been subject to Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.  ⁵ In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim ⁶ and the Horites in the hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran near the desert. ⁷ Then they turned back and went to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazezon Tamar.
 ⁸ Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboyim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and drew up their battle lines in the Valley of Siddim ⁹ against Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goyim, Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five. ¹⁰ Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills. ¹¹ The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food; then they went away. ¹² They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.



Kedorlamer and the kings won the war against the king of Sodom, and Gomorrah and other kings. and they captures Lot who is Abram's nephew.

The bibical archealogist Al bright said it was happened at about BC 1625.



 ¹³ A man who had escaped came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the great trees of Mamre the Amorite, a brother^[b] of Eshkol and Aner, all of whom were allied with Abram. ¹⁴ When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he called out the 318 trained men born in his household and went in pursuit as far as Dan. ¹⁵ During the night Abram divided his men to attack them and he routed them, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus. ¹⁶ He recovered all the goods and brought back his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the other people.

Abram brought back his relative Lot and his possessions.

 ¹⁷ After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
 ¹⁸ Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High, ¹⁹ and he blessed Abram, saying,
   “Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
   Creator of heaven and earth.
²⁰ And praise be to God Most High,
   who delivered your enemies into your hand.”
   Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

It is a custom to offer a tenth of everything.  Because Abram gave 10% after the blessing from king of Salem.
  

 ²¹ The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and keep the goods for yourself.”
 ²² But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the LORD, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, ²³ that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’ ²⁴ I will accept nothing but what my men have eaten and the share that belongs to the men who went with me—to Aner, Eshkol and Mamre. Let them have their share.”

The king of Sodom said "keep the goods for yourself ".      Abram said "I will accept nothing".   Abraham is not greedy at all. He has such a wonderful deep heart.
Who is Melchizedek?
When Abraham born, Shem was 390, Shem died 600. He lived for 210 after Abraham was born. Abraham died 175. It means Shen lived 35 years after Abraham died.
We can guess that Abraham offered 10% to Melchizedek who is Shem(first son of Noah)

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Abram and Lot Separate

Genesis 13

Abram and Lot Separate

 ¹ So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. ² Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.  ³ From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier ⁴ and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Abraham won for king Pharaoh means that Abraham symbolically restored the first Blessing.
And Abraham got back Sara means that he symbolically restored the second blessing.
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. that means Abraham symbolically restored third Blessing.
He made an altar and pray for new start.
 ⁵ Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. ⁶ But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. ⁷ And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
 ⁸ So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives. ⁹ Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”
 ¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan toward Zoar was well watered, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) ¹¹ So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: ¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived among the cities of the plain and pitched his tents near Sodom. ¹³ Now the people of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Abraham and Lot separate.  If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.  Abraham loves Lot a lot, so he said Lot to decide.Lot chose Sodom where was sin city. - Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." - Jude 6-7, KJV

 ¹⁴ The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. ¹⁵ All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring^[a] forever. ¹⁶ I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. ¹⁷ Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.”
 ¹⁸ So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.
God encouraged Abraham. He built an altar to the Lord Hebron.
Later he bought a cemetery in Hebron for Sarah,  then later Abraham , Issac, Rebecca, Jacob, Leah got in to the cemetery.

Abraham depress since he separated with Lot. But He believed that God would change his difficulty to hope and joy.

Genesis 12 The Call of Abram

Genesis 12

The Call of Abram

 ¹ The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.  ² “I will make you into a great nation,
   and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
   and you will be a blessing.^[a]
3 I will bless those who bless you,
   and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
   will be blessed through you.”^[b]
 4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. ⁵ He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.

³²And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.~genesis 11/32
Terah is father of Abraham, and died in Harran.

 ⁶ Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. ⁷ The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring^[c] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
 ⁸ From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
 ⁹ Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

He built an alter to the Lord means the Abraham proclaim this is God's land.

Abram in Egypt

 ¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. ¹¹ As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know what a beautiful woman you are. ¹² When the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. ¹³ Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”  ¹⁴ When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace. ¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 11 is the restoration for Noah's family, and the genesis 12 is restoration Adam's family.
Abraham and Sarah said they are brother and sister, just like Adam and Eve were brother and sister. Pharaoh was in the archangel position.
Pharaoh took Sarah into his palace.

 ¹⁷And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
 ¹⁸And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
 ¹⁹Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
 ²⁰And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

Pharaoh took Sarah from Abraham, and Abraham got back Sarah.  Arkangel took Eve, Adam could not bring back,he failed.
Abraham and Sarah prayed so hard, so God plagued Pharaoh and his house, not for others.
Abraham restored Sarah and all things.