"when Jesus was passed over again by ship" - Wolves and Sheep before God

A Pacific Coast Line 200 km West of Tokyo

Wolves and Sheep before God

Human beings want to be happy, rich, superior and respected.  But in what society do they want to be happy, rich, superior and respected?  In the society where they have to make others unhappy or neglect unhappy people for them to be happy, rich, superior and respected, they want to be happy, rich, superior and respected.  That is why being happy, rich, superior and respected is a proof of the sin of making others unhappy or neglecting unhappy people.

But there are differences in degrees of sinners.  From the worst:
1. Those who enjoy making others unhappy or neglecting unhappy people, needless to say they try hard to be happy, rich, superior and respected.
2. Those who don't mind making others unhappy or neglect unhappy people, so that they will do it as much as it is necessary for them to be happy, rich, superior and respected.
3. Those who don't like to  make others unhappy or neglect unhappy people, and they will do it only if it is necessary for them to be happy, rich, superior and respected.
4. Those who don't like to  make others unhappy or neglect unhappy people, and thus they avoid it as much as possible even if it hinders them in getting happy, rich, superior and respected.
5. Those who try to save and help unhappy people without trying themselves to be happy, rich, superior and respected.

The point at issue is that human beings should not want to be happy, rich, superior and respected, but they should follow teaching of God who would give them happiness, wealth, superiority, and respect at His will.

It means that Christ Jesus requests us to change our value system.  We should not live to be happy and successful in this society and to satisfy our desire in this world.  We should live to show full respect to God by following His teaching.

In other words, people are trying to be happy, rich, superior and respected like wolves, while followers of the God teaching are like sheep.  But these wolves are against God who created them.  Therefore, sooner or later the wolves will be punished no matter how much they become happy, rich, superior and respected in this world.

And, wolves and sheep are different species; there are no relationships between them.  It means that those who abandon being happy, rich, superior and respected due to the teaching of God will enter Heaven where those wolves cannot be admitted.

It also means that wolves have no ability to feel greatness and power of God, while sheep has.  If you can understand how great and powerful God is through this material world to the spiritual sphere, you would surely follow the teaching of God.  Compared with glory God promises His followers, worldly happiness, wealth, status, and fame are nothing.  So, the key is the ability to sense existence of God.  Wolves have lost or inherently lack this ability.  But those who are not a 100% wolf might repent and change their minds if they are taught truth.






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Mar 5:21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.
Mar 5:22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
Mar 5:23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

"if any of you do err from the truth" - No Terror Issues in the World If...

A Pacific Ocean Shore 200 km West of Tokyo

No Terror Issues in the World If...

According to a study, 2,658 people were killed by terrorists around the world in 2014.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3322308/Number-people-killed-terrorists-worldwide-soars-80-just-year.html

However, violence involving guns in the US results in more deaths than those killed by terror.

Gun violence in the United States results in thousands of deaths and injuries annually.[1] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms were used in 84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens) [2] and 11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000),[3] 21,175 by suicide with a firearm,[4] 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm,[4] and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent"[5] for a total of 33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention). 1.3% of all deaths in the country were related to firearms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

So, it is not simple statistics that makes terror of today more alarming than violence involving guns in the US.

The following world map indicating degrees of danger caused by terror in countries show the significance of terror.

 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11629161/Mapped-The-countries-facing-the-greatest-threat-from-Islamic-extremists.html

Countries in green are safer, and countries in red are more dangerous in terms of terror attacks.

Developing countries almost mean countries with terror risk.  And most of developing countries are Islamic countries.  And some Islamic countries are big oil producers.  And the modern civilization depends on crude oil.  So, the issue of terror is one of major underlying challenges of the modern world.

But more alarmingly those countries under threats of terror are also countries with higher rates of poverty or higher rates of infant mortality.





Terror is from poverty.  And poverty is caused by wealthy people.  Or poor countries cannot be rich because wealthy countries do not help them.

Poverty and Islam are tow major factors of emergence of terror.  The opposite is rich and Christian countries where no terrorists emerge.

Conversely, rich Christians and Judaists are major causes for terror.  If Europeans and Americans are Muslims and poor, there must be no terror issues in the world.




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Jam 5:19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
Jam 5:20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

"they sought means to bring him in" - Japanese Paddy Agriculture

Paddy Fields around Tokyo

Japanese Paddy Agriculture

Wheat started to be cultivated in ancient Mesopotamia 8,000 years ago, though they made bread without fermentation.  At the same time, wheat was introduced into Egypt, but by chance ancient Egyptians found fermentation process that was adopted to their bread making.  Then this fermentation bread was imported to ancient Greece.  It paved the way for the ancient Greek-Roman Civilization.

The ancient civilizations in India was also established through wheat cultivation.  However in China, a civilization around the Yellow River, established 6,000 years ago, was based on wheat cultivatioｎ, but its another civilization around the Long River was established based on rice cultivation more than 10,000 years ago.

And, today there is a theory that rice cultivation was imported into ancient Japan from a region that belonged to the Long River Civilization about 3,000 year ago, though it was about 2,500 years ago that rice cropping started to prevail in Japan.

What is remarkable about Japan is that wheat cultivation never became a mainstream of its agriculture.  From ancient days to today, the Japanese have mainly cultivated rice.  No bread making from wheat was tried in Japan before its Westernization that started in the middle of the 19th century.

While the Chinese Civilization partly relied on wheat cultivation, the Japanese Civilization solely depended on rice cultivation.  In this context, Japan is the only major civilization that has developed solely relying on rice and paddy fields.  This is one of unique characteristics of Japan among developed countries and major countries in the world.

From one grain of rice, 200 grains are reproduced, while one grain of wheat produces only 20 grains.   From a same area of crop land, rice provides calories 1.6 times more than wheat does.  In addition to the natural environment suitable for rice cropping and making paddy fields, this efficiency of rice must make it the major staple for Japanese agriculture.

But, paddy agriculture is very different from wheat farming, which fostered uniqueness of the Japanese culture against Chinese and European cultures.  Rice cannot be grown in the concave-convex fields.  To fill the field with water, it must be even.  To set up a paddy field is not so easy as to plant seeds in grassy and uneven land.

As for uniqueness of the Japanese culture, Japanese did not experience full-scale hunting and stock raising era.  They entered the era of rice cropping after a hunting-gathering era.  The Japanese archipelago has no great plains or plain forests suitable for full-scale cattle breeding.

So, while wheat farming and experiences of hull-scale hunting and cattle breeding are common in the mainstream of the world, including Europe, India and China, Japan lacks such traditions.  But Japanese have been engaged in almost solely rice farming.

The key to understanding Japan and the Japanese is this tradition of paddy agriculture.

For example, sushi with rice and seafood is a result of this uniqueness.




Trend of Yield Amount of Rice in Japan
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/raichou/20120718/1342585287


Ranking of Rice Yield by Country

1	China	203,612,200
2	India	159,200,000
3	Indonesia	71,279,709
4	Bangladesh	51,500,000
5	Vietnam	44,039,291
6	Thailand	36,062,600
7	Myanmar	28,767,000	2
8	Philippine	18,439,406
9	Brazil	11,782,549
10	JAPAN	10,758,000

11	Cambodia	9,390,000	2
12	US	8,613,094

Rice bowl
http://kenkou-kokoro.com/archives/507



Wheat


Rice


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Luk 5:18 And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
Luk 5:19 And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

"not come to destroy, but to fulfil" - Question on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Pacific Ocean Coast 200 km West of Tokyo

Question on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo Prefecture has a public budget reaching 13 trillion yen ($125 billion).  It has 160,000 public servants.  Its GDP is about 92.4 trillion yen ($870 billion) equivalent to GDP of the 14th largest country in the world.

However it is estimated that if an M7-class earthquake occurred (whose probability is 70% in 30 years), Tokyo would suffer 23,000 deaths and economic damage worth 95 trillion yen.

But what the Japanese Government and the Tokyo prefectural office are doing is preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with total costs of 1.8 trillion yen ($17 billion).   What is worse, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear accident is not yet completely fixed while about 100,000 people are still in a state of evacuation in Fukushima Prefecture.

But is there any reason for Japan and Tokyo to venture on the Olympics despite the ongoing effect of the 2011 natural disaster and the Fukushima nuclear accident and the coming disaster?

It is a question for Japanese too difficult to answer now.


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Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

"him that was possessed with the devil" - Haiku Genius Shiki Masaoka

Tokyo-Nagoya Expressway

Haiku Genius Shiki Masaoka

Haiku is a form of Japanese poems, now worldly learnt and practiced.

The most famous author or haiku poet in the history of the Japanese modern literature is Shiki Masaoka, one of the best friends of notable author Soseki Natsume.

Masaoka Shiki (October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902), pen-name of Masaoka Noboru),[2] was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry.[3] He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry.

Some consider Shiki to be one of the four great haiku masters, the others being Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki

Shiki Masaoka suffered from illness for a long period time, though he wrote many works while he was forced to stay in his home due to illness.

One night he saw a dream.  There was one dying animal.  It was crying hard, being afraid of its death.  Then, there came a rabbit.  The rabbit showed extreme sympathy to the animal, extending its fore-paw to the animal that held it and put it in its mouth.  And then, the animal died in peace and calmness.  Then, there was another animal dying and crying.  Again, the rabbit approached it, extending its fore-paw to the animal that held it and put it in its mouth.  And then, the animal died in peace and calmness.  Then there was another...

When he woke up, Shiki could not help but recall the dream.


Shiki argued what were commonplace haiku and what were not.

According to Shiki Masaoka, commonplace haiku are descriptive in presenting a scene or a situation without much mind of a poet or without much art of handling a subject.


Splitting firewood all alone
Is my younger sister as if
keeping insides for the winter
- Shiki Masaoka

Shiki Masaoka, when he was still healthy, called his mother and younger sister from his local home town to Tokyo so that they could live together, though his father had died many years ago.  But after Shiki became sick, they devoted themselves to care of him.  According to Shiki, his sister was a very tough and cool woman.




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Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.

"the prayer of faith shall save the sick" - The Holocaust and Islamic Wars

Mt. Fuji, Japan

The Holocaust and Islamic Wars

Pious Muslims pray to God five times or so a day.  Muslim women covered their hair and skins with veils or so.  They don't even drink alcohol, at least, so openly.

But contemporary Christian Europeans and Americans do not pray to God so often and their women love to expose their skins.  They have no restriction on drinking alcohol and some of them are drug addicts.

What is worse, under the slogan of liberal or progressive today's Western culture accept abnormal men and women, which Muslims cannot accept.

So, it seems reasonable that God loves Muslims and hates Europeans and Americans.  Accordingly, Satan is attacking Muslims, which can be seen in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.  The more Muslims suffer, the more Satan with corrupt Europeans and Americans is rejoiced.

This is one way of interpretation of the global situation of today from a viewpoint of true religion.

Put simply, the core of Judaism and Christianity has been contaminated by Western material civilization that produced capitalism, commercialism, and worship of money.  But why don't they perish and get terminated, while Europeans and Americans are so rotten and corrupt, being brainwashed by Satan?

The answer is the Holocaust that occurred in WWIII with six million Judaists executed by Nazis.  The aftershock was so grave among Europeans and Americans.  This grave trauma was engraved in the minds and hearts of Europeans and Americans.  It has had effect of protecting them from Satan who wanted to make Europeans and Americans make more wars and kill one another as much as possible.  The reason why the Third World War has not occurred to date is the remaining aftershock of the Holocaust.

No matter how much corrupt and rotten Europeans and Americans, they are still under effect of the Holocaust.  That is why order and law are observed, and total destruction of morals and ethics are prevented in Europe, America and other nations ruled by mostly by the European race.
Today's wars, civil wars, and armed conflicts in the Islamic world must work like the Holocaust.  Its aftershock will be so grave and deep that future Muslims would be prevented from getting corrupt and rotten like the European race.  Of course, this discussion is based on the assumption that the Islamic world will be also modernized and industrialized, getting under influence of capitalism, commercialism, and worship of money as we see in Dubai.

Economies of the ummah
SAKIB SHERANI — PUBLISHED AUG 12, 2013 08:05AM

The most authentic list comes from the seminal 2010 study by the Pew Research centre, which lists Muslim-majority countries at 49. Including the Muslim population of countries that have a large Muslim minority cohort, such as India and Nigeria among others, the combined total of adherents to Islam is around 1.62 billion, or roughly 23pc of the world population. 

Muslim countries account for 21.7pc of the world’s land mass, with the largest Muslim country in terms of geographic size being Kazakhstan. It is followed by Algeria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. 

Nearly 22pc of the Muslim population of the world resides in the Arab countries, while almost 1.3 billion Muslims are residents of the remaining Muslim-majority countries.

The aggregate size of the economies of all Muslim countries put together is around $5.7 trillion — or 8.1pc of the world total. The largest economy in the Islamic world is Indonesia with a size of $846 billion, followed by Turkey ($775bn) and Saudi Arabia ($577bn). Iran is the only other Muslim country with a GDP larger than $500bn.

http://www.dawn.com/news/1035026

At least there is potential for economic success in the Islamic world.  The key to success must be a change of the Islamic paradigm.  For example, if Muslims are given another Koran that recommends them to import the essence of the Western civilization, apart from religious aspects, future Muslims might leverage science and technology developed in the Western world more smoothly.



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Jam 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

"let him sing psalms" - A Long Way to Recognize God

A Mountainous Area North of Tokyo

A Long Way to Recognize God

The relationship between God and the whole mankind and also each individual is the last and the most important issue for the human species.

In any civilization, including the ancient Egyptian one, there is a religion and a myth.  Animals do not think about somebody with super and super-natural power.  They are just afraid of danger brought on them by other animals or natural phenomena.  They are not thankful to the nature that nourish them.  But human beings started to think, from a log time ago or millions of years ago, that there exited spirits, namely non material existence, in environment within or out of the nature, since their minds and hearts were spiritual.

"Something very powerful, horrible, or merciful must exist beyond the nature," they must have thought.  And as human beings advanced in their recognition and cogitation, they came to think there might be something that controlled their fates, since some people were lucky and others were very unlucky beyond the limit of individuals' efforts.  And, "that something must be spiritual existence," they must have concluded.

Human beings living 10,000 years ago or a million years ago thought about their death.  They of course knew that their physical death meant the end of work of their minds and hearts.  But as they could recognize that their minds and hearts constituted their own inner domain, they thought that their souls, the sources of work of their minds and hearts, should belong to another world.  And the world must be an independent world from the material nature. "When we die, our bodies are destroyed and decayed but their souls must survive in another world," human beings came to believe clearly at least 250,000 years ago when Homo sapiens was established or as some groups of primates or the genus Homo came to believe so, they became Homo sapience whose only existent group is us, the mankind.

The development from the stage of primates to the mankind through the phases of Homo species must be guided by the development of recognition of spiritual existence and realization of inner souls of their own minds.

Family Hominidae: humans and other great apesSubfamily Ponginae

Subfamily Ponginae  

• Tribe Pongini

• Genus Pongo

• Bornean orangutan,  Pongo pygmaeus

• Sumatran orangutan, Pongo abelii 

Subfamily Homininae

• Tribe Gorillini

• Genus Gorilla

• Western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla

• Eastern gorilla, Gorilla beringei

・Tribe Hominini

• Subtribe Panina

• Genus Pan

• Chimpanzee (common chimpanzee), Pan troglodytes

• Bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee), Pan paniscus

　・Subtribe Hominina

• Genus Homo

• Human, Homo sapiens

• Anatomically modern human, Homo sapiens sapiens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic humans in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200,000 years ago.[3] The emergence of anatomically modern human marks the dawn of the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens,[4] i.e. the subspecies of Homo sapiens that includes all modern humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_human

In this context, it has been just 200,000 years since some species on the earth started to clearly sense and respect some spiritual existence.

Conversely, because one species came to sense existence of souls and spiritual entities, it could develop from domains of orangutans,  gorillas, and chimpanzees.  And, some group in the species further developed their recognition of souls and spiritual entities to become Homo sapiens sapiens.

Therefore, the key feature that characterizes the mankind is its recognition of its souls and spiritual entities around it.

In this context, the decisive factor that allowed for evolution of living things to the mankind is self recognition of their souls and spiritual entities around them.  Therefore, what made formation of the human species possible is not physical features but strength of self-recognition of their souls and ability to sense the spiritual world.

Since a living thing was first generated on the earth 4 billion years ago, there was always a group of living things that focused on their inner world that developed to minds and hearts through the phases of one-cell organisms, multicellular organisms, fishes, amphibians, mammals, primates, and homo sapiens sapiens.

The tendency of human beings to focus on their own inner world, souls, spiritual domains, and God is not a result of evolution.  But rather, a driving factor of evolution to the human species from, extremely, one-cell organisms.  Our ancestors must have been always focusing on their internal spheres even when they were one-cell organisms, multicellular organisms, fishes, amphibians, mammals, and primitive primates.

However, after the establishment of human beings with a feature of focusing on souls and spirit, they had to still live long and go a long way till they found the Sole Creator of the Universe who is the only and one God.

Today, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim that their is only one God who created the whole world.   And, all the mankind knows it.  So, it has taken 4 billion years that living things on the earth come to correctly believe in existence of God that created all the living things.

So, the future evolution of homo sapiens sapiens should also rely on this feature of the mankind of focusing on their own souls, the spiritual domain, and God.



https://muttslikeme.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/treeolife3.jpg%3Fw%3D500%26h%3D600



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Jam 5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
Jam 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
Jam 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

"we shall reign on the earth" - Holy Authority vs Democracy

Around Tokyo

Holy Authority vs Democracy

How could Christ Jesus get foods?

To know the answer, we have to live and act like Him.  We have to live and act as God wishes, and then God should feed us like He feeds birds in the sky.

As Christ Jesus said, we have to first seek holy justice, and then whatever is needed for our lives should be given by God.

In this way, as Christ Jesus was traveling from a village to another, God must have provided foods and meals for Christ Jesus through villagers who were healed by or came to believe Christ Jesus.

In other word, Christ Jesus had no need for money to buy foods, since villagers who saw miracles offered meals for free.

And remarkably, Christ Jesus did not beg foods like today's politicians beg votes from voters.

The big difference from the world of today with democratic political systems is that Christ Jesus had holy authority.  Politicians today have no such authority.  And voters in a democratic nation have also no divine authority.  Voters' voice is not a voice of God.

Voices of God can be only delivered by saints such as Christ Jesus in any era.

In this context, to make the world better, we had better to strengthen our faith so that God would give some authority to some members of our society.  It is because democracy can be controlled by voters who might even follow Satan.



https://wordtrace.wordpress.com/tag/wallpaper/page/5/



Presidential candidates without holy authority
http://www.texasgopvote.com/government/why-are-americans-angry-008822


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Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Rev 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Rev 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

"they shall be called the children of God" - To stop Trump, Have More Faith in God

A Local Area North of Tokyo

To stop Trump, Have More Faith in God

Christ Jesus said to love God with all of your might and ability, which means putting the highest priority in the teaching of God.

However, people usually put the highest priority in their own lives with riches, security, wealth, safety, and other factors of their own happiness.

According to the teaching of Christ Jesus, we have to put the teaching of God before our individual matters, family matters, social matters, national matters, and even matters of the human species.  We have to live for God but not for ourselves, our families, our communities, our nations, and the human species.

It is because though our physical bodies are made of molecules and atoms, our minds and hearts are made of our spirits God gave to us individually.  Our ability to recognize ourselves with consciousness and use higher intellect was given by God.  The work of our brains and power of minds and hearts are linked to the spiritual world that is above the material world.  As Christ Jesus suggested, God sends spirits to human beings.

Put simply, we have to admit that we were created by God and we are not simple results of random phenomena of the nature.

If we don't put the highest priority to God, we will put our desire to the highest position.  That is why Hitler could take the leadership in Germany before WWII.  That is why dictators such as Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, etc. took power.  It is because people without faith in God would try to be happy by sacrificing others, especially, the poor, the weak, the handicapped, the minority, etc.

In this context, the American politics is paradoxical.  If Americans want to liberate people perfectly as some Democrats claim, they have to have deeper faith in God as some Republicans claim.  In reality, less faithful Democrats are focusing on justice for minorities, which could be only realized by more faithful Republicans.

This discrepancy of American political and religious domains has led to the rise of the Mafia-type figure named Trump.  The cause of popularity of Presidential candidate Trump lies in this inconsistency of the American political and religious conditions.

To stop Trump, Americans have to keep the teaching of God first and foremost.





http://israeliside.com/2014/11/dictators-must-go-2/



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-donald-trumps-fascist-inclinations-do-not-bother-his-fans-20151214-story.html


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Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

"for I am a sinful man, O Lord" - For Human Beings to be Complete

Mountain Area North of Tokyo

For Human Beings to be Complete

Christ Jesus said to be complete like your Father in Heaven who is God.

To be complete is to perform something 100% to requirements.  For example, to finish a work in any genre must meet this teaching.  But, believing in God 100% will be complete belief.

You can make efforts that may be measured by quantity of your achievements.  For example you may walk 100 km, 1,000 km, or 10,000 km.  But you cannot see when it will be complete.  But, if you walk in a wrong direction, no matter how much you may walk, it is incomplete.

But if you never lose a right direction, your 10 km walking to the right direction may be complete.  In this sense, to find a right direction is the first step for us to be complete.

Christ Jesus also said that we cannot serve both God and Mammon at the same time.  If we serve God 100% in our daily lives, we may be complete.  But if we serve God 50% while enjoying riches, social status, and privileges, it cannot be complete.

To be complete as a human being is to live 100% as God requests us to live.




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Luk 5:8 When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
Luk 5:9 For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

"Wilt thou be made whole?" - Drugs and Obama vs. Trump

Abandoned Paddy Fields around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

Nuclear Waste Disposal Bags Accumulated around Fukushima Daiichi

Gate to an Abandoned Town Area around Fukushima Daiichi

Drugs and Obama vs. Trump

Drugs and violence are so prevalent in the US.

Prison population explosion in the United States
FACT: 1 in 100 U.S. citizens is now confined in jail or prison.
FACT: This burden is borne disporportionately by racial and ethnic minorities.
1 out of every 15 African American men
1 out of every 36 Hispanic men
FACT: The U.S. incarcerates more people per capita than 26 of the largest European nations.
http://www.nadcp.org/learn/drug-courts-work/drugs-and-crime-america

In other statistics, 716 out of 100,000 Americans are in jails, which is the world No.1.  In this statistics about 223 countries, Japan is the 196th with 54 out of 100,000 Japanese put in jails.

Basic Data
(Total Annual Drug Arrests in the US, by Type)
(2014) Of the 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations in 2014, 83.1% (1,297,384) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 16.9% (263,848) were for the sale or manufacturing of a drug.
(2013) Of the 1,501,043 arrests for drug law violations in 2013, 82.3% (1,235,358) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 17.7% (265,685) were for the sale or manufacturing of a drug.
(2012) Of the 1,552,432 arrests for drug law violations in 2012, 82.2% (1,276,099) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 17.8% (276,333) were for the sale or manufacturing of a drug.
(2011) Of the 1,531,251 arrests for drug law violations in 2011, 81.8% (1,252,563) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 18.2% (278,687) were for the sale or manufacturing of a drug.
(2010) Of the 1,638,846 arrests for drug law violations in 2010, 81.9% (1,342,215) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 18.1% (296,631) were for the sale or manufacture of a drug.
(2007) Of the 1,841,182 arrests for drug law violations in 2007, 82.5% (1,518,975) were for possession of a controlled substance. Only 17.5% (322,207) were for the sale or manufacture of a drug.

(Total Number of Arrests in the US, 1973 and 2014) 

In 1973, there were 328,670 arrests reported by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for drug law violations, out of a total 9,027,700 arrests nationwide for all offenses. Also that year, authorities reported 380,560 arrests for all violent crimes and 1,448,700 arrests for all property offenses. 

In 2014, there were 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations out of a total 11,205,833 arrests nationwide for all offenses. Also in 2014, authorities reported 498,666 arrests for all violent crimes and 1,553,980 arrests for all property offenses.
- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Crime#sthash.yhCTq3PU.dpuf

 So, 1.5 million Americans are arrested annually for drug-related crimes, which suggest more than 15 million Americans are using drugs.

Nearly 20 percent of whites have used cocaine, compared with 10 percent of blacks and Latinos, according to a 2011 survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — the most recent data available.

Higher percentages of whites have also tried hallucinogens, marijuana, pain relievers like OxyContin, and stimulants like methamphetamine, according to the survey. Crack is more popular among blacks than whites, but not by much.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/racial-disparity-drug-use_n_3941346.html 

In 2007, according to the UCR, law enforcement agencies nationwide made an estimated 14 million arrests for all criminal infractions except traffic violations. Among the specific categories, the highest arrest counts were --

• 1.8 million for drug abuse violations;

• approximately 1.4 million for driving under the influence;

• 1.3 million for simple assaults; and

• 1.2 million for larceny-thefts.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/enforce.cfm

But how much money is involved in the illegal drug-related business?

In January 2012, the U.S. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy asked RAND to generate national estimates of market sizes for four illicit drugs: cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine (meth). (RAND was not asked to assess prescription drug misuse.) Using data from 2000 to 2010 for each drug, the study estimated the number of users, expenditures, and consumption. The results show that drug users in the United States spend on the order of $100 billion annually on all four drugs (in 2010 dollars). This figure has been stable over the decade, but there have been important shifts in the drugs being purchased.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9770.html

When Obama became US President in 2009, the number of Arrests for Illicit Drugs Annually in the US was 1,663,582.  And the number in 2014 was 1,561,231.  President Obama cannot improve the situation so much.

But, if Trump becomes US President, less improvement is expected, though he doesn't use any drugs.


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Joh 5:5 And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
Joh 5:6 When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?
Joh 5:7 The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
Joh 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.

"Master, we have toiled all the night" - A Lesson from the Wedding Feast at Cana

Fukushima Station, Japan

A Lesson from the Wedding Feast at Cana

Who are the parents of the mother of Christ Jesus?

In the second century, a devout Christian sought to supply a fuller account of Mary’s birth and family, to satisfy the interest and curiosity of believers. An apocryphal gospel, known as the Protevangelium of James or The Nativity of Mary, appeared. It included legendary stories of Mary’s parents Joachim and Anne. These stories were built out of Old Testament narratives of the births of Isaac and of Samuel (whose mother’s name, Hannah, is the original form of Anne), and from traditions of the birth of John the Baptist. In these stories, Joachim and Anne—the childless, elderly couple who grieved that they would have no posterity—were rewarded with the birth of a girl whom they dedicated in infancy to the service of God under the tutelage of the temple priests.
https://liturgyandmusic.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/july-26-joachim-and-anne-parents-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary/

It is said that the father of Joseph, the father of Jesus, is Jacob.  But who was the mother of the father of Christ Jesus?

One interesting episode about Christ Jesus is wedding at Cana:

John 2:1-11 states that while Jesus was attending a wedding in Cana with his disciples, the party ran out of wine. Jesus' mother (unnamed in John's Gospel) told Jesus, "They have no wine," and Jesus replied, "O Woman, what has this to do with me? My hour has not yet come." His mother then said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you" (John 2:3-5). Jesus ordered the servants to fill containers with water and to draw out some and take it to the chief steward waiter. After tasting it, without knowing where it came from, the steward remarked to the bridegroom that he had departed from the custom of serving the best wine first by serving it last (John 2:6-10). John adds that: "Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and it revealed his glory and his disciples believed in him (John 2:11)".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_at_Cana

This is a very rare occasion that Christ Jesus attended a social ceremony.  And, in this wedding feast, Mother Mary gave an instruction to the servants.  She seems to have some authority there.  But, as Mother Mary had no brothers and sisters, this must not be marriage related to her parents' home.  And especially Christ Jesus seems to have been obliged to attend the wedding feast by accompanying His mother.  But who's wedding was it?

If it had not been related to Mother Mary's parents' home, it must have been related to the house of Jesus' father, Joseph.  But Joseph did not look like attending the feast.  Rather, it looks like Christ Jesus attended the feast in lieu of His father Joseph.

However, according the Gospels, when Jesus returned to Nazareth, some villagers tried to kill Him by pushing Him out of a cliff.

So, it is estimated that Joseph had already left the village, Nazareth, for some difficult reason.  But there was wedding whose feast the parents of Christ Jesus were obliged to attend.  As Joseph was absent, Mother Mary asked Christ Jesus to accompany her.  And, Joseph did not return to Nazareth and took up his duty in the village.  Accordingly, villagers did not have good feeling to Mother Mary and Christ Jesus in Nazareth.  It is interesting where Joseph had gone, leaving his wife Mary.

Anyway, the couple whose wedding had been blessed by Christ Jesus through His attendance at their wedding feast seem to have not been very much grateful to Christ Jesus, since there were no mentions about them in the Gospels.

Christ Jesus said to be kind to thankless people.  So, the miracle in wedding at Cana was described in the Bible.

By the way, the servants must have hidden some wine in a vase for water for themselves.  Christ Jesus could see through it.  So, He said to pour water from the vase, which was actually hidden wine.




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Luk 5:4 Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
Luk 5:5 And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
Luk 5:6 And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

"Blessed are they that mourn" - Millions of Followers of the Antichrist

Tokyo

Millions of Followers of the Antichrist

It may be time to think about the Second Coming of Christ Jesus and anti-Christ.

In some Christian eschatologies Jesus, the Christ or Christian Messiah, will appear in his Second Coming to Earth to face the Antichrist, who will be the greatest false messiah in Christianity. Just as Christ is the savior and the ideal model for humanity, his opponent will be a single figure of concentrated evil, according to Bernard McGinn. 

In Islamic eschatology, Masih ad-Dajjal is an anti-messiah figure (similar to the Christian concept of Antichrist), who will appear to deceive humanity before the second coming of "Isa",[4] as Jesus is known by Arabic-speaking Muslims. 

In some schools of non-legalistic medieval Jewish eschatology, a comparable (parodic) anti-Messiah figure, son of a virgin, is called Armilus, "a king who will arise at the end of time against the Messiah, and will be conquered by him after having brought much distress upon Israel."[5] The concept of an antichrist is absent in traditional Judaism; however, in the medieval diaspora, his inevitable destruction is narrated as the symbol of ultimate victory of good over evil in the Messianic age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist

From the beginning there were many enemies of Christ Jesus.  And there were many unbelievers.

They may be categorized as follows:
1) Those who hate God since they love evil while they hate good.
2) Those who cannot accept the teaching of Christ Jesus as they love money and pursue desire.
3) Those who are brainwashed by evil spirits or Satan.
4) Those who cannot feel love or compassion to the poor, the weak, or unhappy people.
5) Those who cannot believe existence of God.

In this global economy, businesses are trying hard to sell their goods and services.  If consumers don't like their goods and services, businesses will go bankrupt.  So, they have to make consumers want their goods and services.  Those companies use TV commercials and every channel for advisement to arouse lust of consumers.  They present fabulous and luxurious goods and life styles using good looking actors and actresses.  They further offer attractive financial goods to rich consumers.  And consumers try to get big money to purchase those goods and services to satisfy their desire.  But there are all directed to the hell, since behind the scene of this commercialism there is Satan.

So, in this era of global economy, the Antichrist may appear as a smart and successful business leader.

Indeed, there seem to be millions of followers of the Antichrist in the global business community.  That is why you must not admire successful business men and billionaires.


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Mat 5:4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Mat 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

"Who had his dwelling among the tombs" - Then What is God?

Paddy Fields around Tokyo

Then What is God?

Everybody knows that one and one is equal to two, and two and two is four.

We live in the universe where this kind of arithmetic is valid and correct.  And scientists believe that this kind of arithmetic is valid and correct in any universes that are created from vacuum energy.

Then no matter how many different universes are created from vacuum energy, they are in the same  group of universes where that kind of arithmetic is valid and correct.

What I mean is there are other groups of universes where such arithmetic is no more valid and correct.  Such universes must be generated from different types of energy than vacuum energy.

The modern physics cannot handle a universe where different mathematics is prevailing.  And, the modern science cannot even assume different mathematics than ours.  But proof or denial of existence of such a different mathematical system cannot be done using our mathematics.

Conversely, if a mathematical system we use is the only one in all the groups of universes, why is it so?  To prove it, some system above the mathematical system is necessary.  Then, what is such a superior system?

It tells that everything we take for granted might be just a tiny part of large-scale hierarchical truth.

In deed, what are we?  What is our universe?  What is our mathematical system?  Are they all a tiny part of large-scale hierarchical truth?

It means that there is a limit of our ability.  It is only effective in our universe based on our mathematical system.  And there must be many different types of universes and mathematical systems.

And, above them all, God must exist.  God must be creators of all these different types of groups of universes.  But then, what is God?

We can only live in love of God and we can think of God in love of God.  We only have to love God with all of our might and ability.  

It is important to keep in mind that the multiverse view is not actually a theory, it is rather a consequence of our current understanding of theoretical physics. This distinction is crucial. We have not waved our hands and said: “Let there be a multiverse”. Instead the idea that the universe is perhaps one of infinitely many is derived from current theories like quantum mechanics and string theory.

http://upliftconnect.com/parallel-universes/



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Mar 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mar 5:3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Mar 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Mar 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

"And he opened his mouth" - The Last Issue for the Mankind

Shinjuku, Tokyo

The Last Issue for the Mankind

As our scientific knowledge advances, the final issue for mankind should appear: Is there any super-intelligence that created this universe?

This universe is thought to have been created from the so-called vacuum energy.  This energy was transformed to time and space and further to elemental particles that constituted atoms, resulting in this material world in which we live.

Without specific design at the phase of the vacuum energy, this universe and the nature and further this material world are impossible.  So, this fact leads to recognition of God as the Creator.

But some unbelievers might claim that a spate of physical laws that contributed to the building of this nature must be generated only by chance.  However, as I mentioned, the possibility of the establishment of those physical conditions by chance is almost zero.  And the possibility that we were born and live in the universe is also almost zero.  It means that we are now living in this rare universe is almost a dream.  Our consciousness or self-recognition of our own existence must be a fantasy rather than reality.

So, those unbelievers of God should admit that there was a great designer of this universe at the beginning of the vacuum energy phase.

Somebody, almost 14 billion years ago, must have designed the vacuum energy so that it can develop to the universe and the nature we see around us today.

Therefore, the last issue for the mankind is to know who he was that designed this universe.  Though the answer is God, we have to prove it and we have to know how God designed it, so that we may have more confidence in God.

So, 1000 years later, the mankind may prove that this universe was created by God and how God created it.  And that is the last phase of development of the science of the mankind.

However, without modern science, those who believed in God were saved and allowed to enter Heaven.  We don't have to put the highest priority on the development of science.

Nonetheless, it is a mystery to solve why God created this universe for the mankind.



http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/utokyo-research/editors-choice/understanding-the-origin-of-the-universe.html



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Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Mat 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.