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Love your Enemies in the Society or Fighting Fields for Promised Heaven
Christ Jesus said to love your enemies, which has sometimes embarrassed people.
Matthew 5
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
But can the poor love the rich? Can Ukrainians love Russian soldiers who are attacking them, following their president? Or, can followers of the God and Christ Jesus love those who are attacking them, following Satan? Otherwise can lambs love wolves attacking them? Indeed, it must be very difficult for those who hate Satan to love Satan who is going to attack and rule them? How can the Jewish people love Hitler?
To love enemies who are physically, psychologically, or socially, whether explicitly or secretly, we have to have the faith that those who are poor following Christ Jesus would be accepted in Heaven after death but others who are rich following Satan would go to the hells after death. And, we can prove that we are poor following Christ Jesus and our enemies are rich following Satan, with the fact our enemies are attacking us who are poor following Christ Jesus. In short, as we are attacked by our enemies who are following Satan, we are promised by the God to be accepted in Heaven.
For this reason, we may even love our enemies. We may even bless our enemies, since as they have sold their souls to Satan and attacked us, we can be entitled to admittance into Heaven. And happiness we are promised to enjoy in Heaven after death in this world is far greater than any happiness our enemies are enjoying or will enjoy in this world.
It is just like that we are invited to a dinner in the palace by the king who has pity on us as gangsters around the palace have attacked us. We might even thank the gangsters who cannot be allowed into the palace.
So, in order to love our enemies who have attacked or tried to kill us, we need to believe that there is the afterlife and we can be accepted in Heaven while our enemies cannot. And, the crucial condition is that we are following the teaching of the God and Christ Jesus. And the core of the teachings is that only the poor can be accepted in Heaven while the rich cannot.
Indeed, what we can learn about this world or the human society when we are poor is more precious and unfathomable. And, what we have learnt in this state should make us believe in and follow Christ Jesus. In other words, unless we love our enemies, our faith in the God and Christ Jesus is not sufficient.
Love your enemies, since their attacking us proves that we are worthy to be accepted in Heaven where we can enjoy everlasting happiness and eternal life.
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John 3, King James Version
26 And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.