O Grave, Where is thy Victory?
The most important issue for the desperately poor and faithful without hope in this world is whether they can live in an afterlife and how much they will be blessed in the afterlife.
And, Christ Jesus clearly assured them that they could live in an afterlife as spiritual entities and could be allowed to enter into Heaven to have eternal life. According to the teaching of Christ Jesus, being poor and faithful in this world means that being assured to enter into Heaven.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
These passages mean that when a man dies, he will experience a mystery to be changed into a spiritual entity as indicated in near-death experiences or the like reported by many people. Specifically, he hears a sound of trumpet while acquiring the incorruptible body for life in the spirit world. His body and mind will die, but his soul or spirit will continue to live and enter into the spirit world. Therefore, death in this life will turn to be meaningless. The poor and faithful should eventually overcome death with help from the God and Christ Jesus.
This phenomena tells that there are specific structure and relationships among the physical world, the inner psychological world, and the spirit world. They must be related to the state and conditions of the generation of this physical universe and living things, especially the human beings.
However, the modern science has not reached a level high enough to explain how this universe was generated and how consciousness was emerged in the human brains. Nonetheless this universe has been deployed in these 13.8 billion years, and men have developed their own minds to create religions and philosophy. This universe follows certain natural laws, and work of our minds is in the certain framework set by ideal concepts and ideological integrity, or in other words, based on holy rules and orders.
If this material universe was created through work of the God, who is Spirit according to Christ Jesus, the spirit power of the God must have been the factor that generated the energy enabling the formation of this material world. Therefore, there is the spirit world under this physical universe and the material world. So, it is no wonder that a spirt or a soul a man has in his mind can sometimes communicate with the spirit world or spiritual entities there.
Someday, say in coming 100 or 1000 years, elite scientists might find the true status and relationships among materials, human minds, and ideals. However, the truth was already described in the Bible based on the words of Christ Jesus delivered 2000 years ago to offer the poor and unhappy in this world a reassurance of salvation of their souls in life after death.
Consequently, believing that the poor will be blessed by the God in Heaven after death in this world is believing in Christ Jesus. More specifically, the poor, unhappy and faithful never die so as to live forever in Heaven, but the rich, happy, and evil die the second and final death in the hell, after death in this material world.
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1 Corinthians 7, King James Version
27 Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.