How to Understand the Gospels
The Gospels are the story of fight between the Lord Jesus Christ and Satan.
To understand the Gospels, we have to know that there is Satan in this world. Satan wants to keep men away from the God. Indeed, the richer men get, the less they think of the God but the more they think of material happiness. Satan strengthens human desire for material happiness. Especially money is the most effective tool for Satan to capture human minds and souls.
Elite people and rich people with worldly power and wealth are mostly virtually servants of Satan. Therefore the Lord Jesus Christ fought Satan without use of worldly power and wealth.
Love to the God and neighbors and faith in the God are weapons the Lord Jesus Christ used in His fight against Satan. He also used spiritual power to cure the sick and save the poor.
Therefore, to understand the Gospels, we have to know that there is the spirit world over this material world. The Lord Jesus Christ came from the spirit world, so that He could use the spiritual power. Satan also came from the spirit world, but its power is far less that Christ's. But, as the Lord Jesus Christ came to this human world as a man, Satan had a chance to attack the Lord Jesus Christ.
Taking a risk of being attacked by Satan, the Lord Jesus Christ had to come to this world so as to save men living under influence of Satan. He taught how to fight Satan with love and faith. When a man fights Satan with love and faith but not with worldly power and wealth, he can get a help and support from the spirit world, which is one of cores of the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Lord Jesus Christ can easily defeat Satan in the spirit world. But, ordinary men cannot use the spiritual power in the material world so that they can be easily controlled and ruled by Satan. Therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ came to this world as a mere man to fight and defeat Satan.
Indeed, 2,000 years after death of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, His teaching still remains in the human world. So, the history itself is the manifestation of the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Nonetheless, Satan has not given up in these 2,000 years. Men have become more materialistic and tried to pursue material wealth. They seem to choose material happiness realized by money and worldly power over love to the God and neighbors and faith in the God.
However, such blasphemy by men should not be accepted by the God. Therefore, the world of today is at risk of being abandoned by the God. Only the Lord Jesus Christ might forgive and save men. This century really needs interference by the Lord Jesus Christ for men to further survive.
So, the issue is when and how the Lord Jesus Christ will come again to this human world. Will He appear in Ukraine or Gaza? Or will He interfere with the U.S. Presidential Election in this year?
Only we can do is to be awakened to the global situations and spiritual matters, since the Lord Jesus Christ must come again to the human world and exercise His power from the spirit world to wipe out Satan's influence on minds and souls of men.
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Mark 4, King James Version
12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
13 And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.