"Thou hypocrite" - A One-Way Ticket to Heaven

 

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A One-Way Ticket to Heaven

The most important part of the Gospels is in Luke 6, King James Version:

20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

There are no phrases or doctrines in any holy books in this world that clearly specify, declare or teach the same teaching as authentically told in the above word of Christ Jesus.  In addition, Christ Jesus added:

24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

So, it is clear that being poor is the key to entering into Heaven after physical death in this world.  And being rich should lead a man to the hells.  Otherwise, Christ Jesus would have taught to be rich in this world so that a man can enter into Heaven after his physical death in this world.  In this case, Christ Jesus might have also taught how to earn big money so as to be rich.  But, Christ Jesus said that a man cannot serve both the God and mammon.

He even emphasized this truth in Luke 18:

25 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

From these words of Christ Jesus, we may put this teaching of Christ Jesus simply into the following expression: Poor men can enter into Heaven but rich men should fall into the hells after their physical death in this world.

When 99.9 percent of people in society were poor, this teaching must have been welcomed by them and they started to believe in Christ Jesus, and thus Christianity prevailed.  But with development of science and technology, the amount of wealth in society became large, and many came to enjoy rich lives.  However, people could not wholly abandon Christianity, so that they began to introduce special interpretation into this teaching: "Blessed be ye poor" should mean that "Blessed be ye whose soul or mind is poor," etc.

This interpretation led to a circumstance where a rich man who claimed himself to be poor in his soul or mind could become further richer without fear of being condemned to hell.  This trend seems to continue to this day.   

But, would Christ Jesus use such an expression as "poor in one's soul or mind" to poor people without learning and education 2,000 years ago?  "Being poor" meant 2,000 years ago just "being poor without wealth or money" but not "being poor in terms of one's soul or mind" which needed much learning or education to understand.       

It must be interference by Satan.  Satan tells that you can enter into Heaven if you are poor enough in terms of your soul or mind, so that you can be materially rich even if you sell your soul to Satan so as to be rich.  This shows how crafty or slick Satan is.  Even if you are the materially richest man in the world, you can say that you are poor in your soul or mind, so that you believe that you will not fall into the hells after your death.  You can call yourself as a Christian.  It is a blasphemy.  "Being poor" must mean simply "being poor without money or wealth."

So, how materially poor should you be if not in terms of your soul or mind?  This is the right way to understand the teaching of Jesus Christ.  But should the Pope, a bishop, a priest, etc. judge it?  Probably the poorest man should do this judgement.  And it is not so difficult to find the poorest man.  So, let the poorest man in the society or the world judge if you are poor enough to be admitted to Heaven. 

In this context, the Pope, a bishop, a priest, etc. should be one of the poorest man in the society, a country, or the world.

Anyway, you have to be poor as much as Christ Jesus was so as to secure qualification to be admitted into Heaven by the God or Christ Jesus.  Indeed, the Kingdom of Heaven should be full of the poorest man in the society or a country or in each era of the world.  And they will all enjoy happy life in Heaven in the afterlife where there are no evil spirits and Satan.

In conclusion, we have to be poor at least to the degree where you think you are poor enough to be admitted so by the God.  In other world, your poverty is truly a one-way ticket to Heaven.  And, you cannot buy such a ticket by any money or wealth.

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Matthew 7, King James Version
7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: