Friday, January 07, 2022

"they both were now well stricken in years" - Christianity: the Religion for the Poor

 



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Christianity: the Religion for the Poor 

Why did Christ Jesus come to this world?  He came to this world to save poor people.  Therefore, the fist thing for us to do in order to show our faith in Christ Jesus should be to confess that we believe that Christ Jesus came to this world to save the poor.

Indeed, the Gospels clearly says this fact:

Luke 6
20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
The God and Christ Jesus love the poor but hate the rich.  Indeed, the Gospels show Christ Jesus' judgment on the rich:
Matthew 19
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Put simply, the God sent His Son Christ Jesus to this world because the poor were made to suffer in this world by the rich.  But, how did Christ Jesus save the poor?  Did He give the poor big money?  No, but He gave the promise that the poor would be accepted in Heaven, and the rich should not be accepted in Heaven.    

When hearing these words from Christ Jesus, whom they admitted to be the Son of the God or a very holy man, poor men 2,000 years ago became glad and started to follow Him, which led to initiation of Christianity.  In this context, Christianity is the religion for the poor but against the rich.  And, this truth and the situations in this world have not changed even today.

Rather, Satan has penetrated in the Vatican and other churches to soil and contort the teachings by Christ Jesus so that rich people do not feel guilty or fear the anger by the God and Christ Jesus on them.  Satan helped the Vatican, other churches, priests, etc. become rich, and they have come not to be ashamed of being rich.  The implication of the issue on "the rich vs. the poor" is that being rich means being evil, and being poor means not being decisively evil, although none is good except the God, according to Christ Jesus. 

A man can be rich by neglecting other poor people without giving enough money to them and by doing every evil thing to defeat them in any competitions as much as possible.  A man will sell his soul to Satan in order to be rich and continue to be rich.  That is why Satan loves the rich and brainwashes the rich so as for them to be more evil.

Today, due to advancement of information and communication technology, every rich man knows that there are many poor people suffering from poverty and injustice in many regions in the world. So, they cannot excuse themselves. 

In this context, even the Pope may not be accepted in Heaven unless he sells the Vatican's buildings, lands, and all assets and gives the money to the poor in the world. 

Or put extremely, any body may not be accepted in Heaven as long as there is a man who is poorer than he is.  At least, the poorest man in this world can surely enter into Heaven.

Finally, we had better love poorer men than we are, so that they will not offer, before the God, opposition to our being accepted in Heaven. 

We should not forget that we cannot be accepted in Heaven unless we are poor.

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Luke 1, King James Version
5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
7 And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
8 And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.