Christ Jesus, the Most Reliable Man with Spiritual Power
He came to a house and met an old wife to do fortune-telling, saying, "You can live very long. You should never die if your were killed. It is very rare to see your kind of blessed women in these villages. I bet you have a very good luck." The fortune-teller never stopped effusively flattering and pleasing her. The old wife became exceedingly happy and offered him a gorgeous lunch in addition to paying a lucrative fee. Other families of the house also felt happy. But, the next morning, she suddenly died when she woke up in the bed.
Her grand daughter wrote this true story to a publishing company collecting experiences of death of family members.
I don't think that this fortune-teller failed in judging the survival time of the old wife. Rather, he must have judged correctly that death is very close to the woman. But, instead of telling her that she would die soon, he opted to rejoice her whose death was imminent. Indeed, it must have been very rare for the fortune-teller to meet a woman whose death was clearly so close.
This story tells that there are some men who have a kind of supernatural power to see fates or survival time of others. Probably, they can simply feel how lucky a man is or how long he will survive. Otherwise, their failures in fortune-telling or mistakes in judging fates of people must prevail soon from a village to another, and their business should not be successful.
In another example in Japan, an author and doctor of psychiatry who interviewed hundreds of inmates on death row in prisons gradually came to judge whether such inmates were just pretending to be innocent or insane or were rather falsely charged. He came to feel the difference between them through his sincere interviews with data on the inmates.
A man judges others with his mind's capacity and sensing through observation. But he has a spirit in or above his mind, which is linked to the spirit world. And, spirits in the spirit world must be able to see the fate of anyone living in this world. Therefore, if wisdom can flow from a spirit to a mind, a man should be able to realize various hidden things.
To capture the ability to make wisdom flow from one's own spirit to his mind, some religious men, ascetic monks, spiritual practitioners, etc. are engaged in ascetic training. But, some men must be given such ability by nature. Or some others might acquire such ability by chance, since spirit moves around like winds.
So, regardless that a man is holy, good, or evil, he can happen to acquire and perform spiritual ability, since the spirt of a man is closely linked to his mind. In this context, it must be possible that a false Christ appears in society. It is very likely that Satan tries to use unholy fortune-tellers, men with super-natural power, or spirt mediums, since Satan also lives in the spirit world.
In this context, the most reliable man with spiritual power is Christ Jesus, so that we have to read the Gospels from this point of view.
++++ ++++ ++++John 7, King James Version
After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
2 Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
3 His brethren therefore said unto him, Depart hence, and go into Judaea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest.
4 For there is no man that doeth any thing in secret, and he himself seeketh to be known openly. If thou do these things, shew thyself to the world.
5 For neither did his brethren believe in him.
6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.