"Peace be to this house" - How a Man Survived a Crisis at 8,000 Meters

 

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How a Man Survived a Crisis at 8,000 Meters

In 2013, Yuichiro Miura at his 80 stood on the top of Mt. Everest (with the height of 8,848 meters (29,029 ft)) for his third time but as the oldest man who accomplished this great feat.  But he had succeeded in reaching the summit of Mt. Everest in 2008 at his 75.  Even in 2003 Miura at 70 had stood on the top of Mt. Everest as the oldest man at the time together with his second-eldest son Gota.  But Miura is mostly known as the skier who skied down the slope of Mt. Everest from a 8,000 meter point as recorded in the 1975 film named The Man Who Skied Down Everest.  Yet, Miura's son might be a hero as a man who survived a crisis at 8,000 meters.

When Yuichiro was climbing up Mt. Everest in 2008 with his son Gota who accompanied Yuichiro for assistance in case, Gota suffered from altitude sickness at a point over 8,000 metes and was about to almost lose his life, but was narrowly saved by taking Decadron (dexamethasone) for himself, which he happed to carry with him as he had read the book "Last Breath" telling how a climber suffering altitude sickness was saved by taking Decadron. 

Gota went up to a 7500 meter level without oxygen as he had done so in 2003, but started to take about 2 liters of oxygen per minute when he passed a 8,000 meter level as with his old father.  After that, he felt discomfort and breathing difficulty.  Gota decided to go down with help from local guides, while his father Yuichiro continued ascending as he aimed at securing the honor as the oldest man who stood on the summit of Mt. Everest.  

A device that indicated oxygen saturation (SpO2) of Gota's arterial blood showed the value of 52% (normally 90%).  The oxygen bottle he was using showed 150 atmospheric pressure as the remaining pressure.  He tried to calculate how long oxygen could be taken from the bottle based on the formula of (amount of oxygen x remaining pressure) / (flow rate of oxygen per minute).  But his brain could not work.

To cure himself, Gota took an injection of Decadron by himself and started to take 4 liters per minute oxygen.  He called a medical doctor who stood by in Japan via a satellite phone from the slope of Mt. Everest and got advice to get another shot 2 hours later.  Then he continued descending to an intermediate camp while hearing a Japanese voice of someone importunately calling to him, "Don't rest.  Hurry up.  Go back to the camp!"  It is a kind of near-death experience.  With effect of Decadron and 4 liters of oxygen per minute, he finally survived.

Climbers who suffered cerebral edema at the altitude of 8,000 meters or above surely came to a miserable end.  But Gota could remarkably survive due to the mysterious voice, which made him forget a fear of death, persistently encouraging him to continue descending in addition to Decadron and 4 litters per minute oxygen.

This episode might be useful for patients suffering from corona viruses and needing artificial respirators.  Appropriate medicines such as Decadron, enough oxygen, and encouraging and comforting voices like one coming from one's father must save such patients.        

NOTE:  Decadron (dexamethasone) is a corticosteroid, similar to a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands, used to treat arthritis, skin, blood, kidney, eye, thyroid, intestinal disorders, severe allergies, and asthma. Decadron is also used to treat certain types of cancer and occasionally, cerebral edema. The brand name Decadron is no longer available in the U.S; it may be available as a generic.

(https://www.rxlist.com/decadron-drug.htm)

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Luke 10    King James Version

3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.
6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

"Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him" - No Followers of Christ Jesus Died from Viruses

 

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No Followers of Christ Jesus Died from Viruses

The body clocks controlling the circadian rhythm inside the human body regulate work of autonomous nerve system.  The autonomous nerve system influences capillary blood vessels.  The capillary blood vessels deliver immune cells to tissues in the body.  Therefore, setting properly the body clocks is the key to suppressing corona-viruses and other disease germs.  

These daily rhythms help us to survive by making sure we are the most alert at the most stressful times of the day, making sure our organs run smoothly with our meal times and making sure we fall asleep at the right time.
(http://samtalksabout.blogspot.com/2014/05/are-we-ignoring-our-body-clocks.html)

Blood includes white blood cells including lymphocytes consisting of T cells, B cells, natural killer cells, etc. constituting the immune system against corona-viruses and other disease germs.  Put simply, for the immune system to work properly,  capillary blood vessels should work properly.  For capillary blood vessels to work properly, the autonomous nerve system should function properly.  For the autonomous nerve system to function properly, the body clocks controlling the circadian rhythm should work properly, since the whole body is built on hierarchical, networked, and tightly nit relationships of each element. 

Especially when the parasympathetic nerve system in the autonomous nerve system becomes dominant, lymphocytes increase to enhance immunity.  To make the parasympathetic nerve system dominant, it is important to increase blood flow by performing appropriate physical exercise, deep breathing, and warming the body.  

However, in stress-full life, the sympathetic nerve tends to be dominant.  When one feels stress, the brain nerves reflecting the stress would send corresponding signals through nerve systems in the whole body to result in distortion of body clocks, disruption of the autonomous system, contraction of capillary blood vessels, and insufficient activation of immune cells.

But when you feel love of Christ Jesus, who is at least the Son of the God, it would provide a deep feeling of relaxation in you, and thus your body would be freed from adverse effect of stress, keeping or enhancing immunity to defeat corona-viruses and other disease germs.

In this context, to be loved by the God is the final solution to suppress corona-viruses and other disease germs.  In fact, past Christian saints all conquered epidemics, pandemics, and biological crises that attacked them in slams,  ghettos, and rough places, since they believed that they were loved by the God.  

The Bible never reports that any followers of Christ Jesus died of viruses, since they believed the love of the God and kept their body clocks in a normal state according to the natural rhythm of life given by the God without interference of Satan. 

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Matthew 10 King James Version

4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

"if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth" - Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

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Being Young and Not Obese: the Key to Conquering the Corona-Pandemic

To suppress corona-viruses, T cells generated in bone marrow and led to the thymus for further development play a key role.  (However, in the process of development, 95% of T cells are cast out as disqualified in the thymus.)  Aging of the immunity system, which decreases immunity of our body, is mostly ascribed to aging of T cells.

(https://www.researchgate.net/post/T_cells_hidden_immunity_against_Covid-19_What_do_you_think)

The thymus becomes the largest when one is at teenage.  The amount of newly produced T cells in the thymus at one's 40s is one hundredth of those produced in his newborn period.  Accordingly, immunity by T cells at one's 70s decreases to 10% of the level in its prime around the age of 2 years.   The degree of this decrease is larger in "naive T cells" than in "memory T cells" with memory of past viruses.  Therefor old people are vulnerable to new viruses they have never experienced.  

However, calorie restriction is effective for prevention of atrophy or contraction of the thymus caused by aging.  Calorie restriction is generally known to have effect for prevention of aging of mammals.  It suppresses fatty change in the thymus, leading to prevention of naive T cell decrease due to aging and thus strengthening the capacity to resist infection.

Corona-viruses response to T cells through a process similar to that of HIV viruses.  Therefore patients with less T cells need to be taken to early emergency medical care.

So, it is no wonder that the U.S. with many obese persons has many victims of corona-viruses among old people.   Being young and not obese is the key to conquering the corona-pandemic especially in America.  

Especially, calorie restriction seems necessary for old men so as to have a small appetite.  Specifically, it is recommended since the glycolytic systems using energy taken from foods lower their activity in old men but the mitochondrial systems using oxygen come to play a major role in energy generation in their bodies.  So, it is natural for old men to come to have a small appetite, because they can get energy from mitochondria in their cells rather than from foods. 

Christ Jesus must have modified His body so that His body could take more energy from the mitochondrial systems of His body than the glycolytic systems needing foods when He was tempted by Satan in wildness for 40 days.  As a result, He must have been able to travel across Palestine taking few foods. 

So, Christ Jesus said that the body surpassed foods.

Do not think about what you want to eat! 

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John 9    King James Version

29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

"This kind can come forth by nothing" - 2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

 

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2001, 2008, 2020, 2060, and the 22nd Century

This is the third time that the United States is on alert socially as a whole in the 21st century.  The first was the Islamic terror in 2001, and the second was the subprime loan-triggered financial crisis in 2008.  Finally the U.S. is facing the corona-virus pandemic in 2020.

However, the underlying causes are not addressed completely.  Islamic terrorists have bee active in the Middle East, Africa, etc.; Wall Street companies have been pursuing their profit based on worship of money; and China has no intension to respect democracy and freedom while generating corona-viruses.

They symbolize the major factors threatening the world in the 21st century: religious conflicts generating fanatical believers, devastating greed linked with capitalism, and fight for leadership among major countries (especially between Western countries and the block of China and Russia).

The disillusion to the war on terror and the caution to Wall Street companies allowed for realization of the first black President in the U.S.  Then, reaction occurred in the American society with the emergence of Trump, a dubious billionaire real estate agent and TV personality with racial bias in entertainment programs who claims he has achieved the American Dream.  And, finally, corona-viruses were generated in China starting to openly pursue hegemony in the world to spread in the world and kill a million people in the whole world and 200,000 Americans.     

Put simply, in the 21st century, the U.S. must address the challenge from Islamic extremists whose backgrounds include the gap between rich Christian and Jewish world and the poor Islamic world, the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. and other Western countries under capitalism, which can cause devastating financial catastrophe, and anti-democratic counties such as China that can even generate a virus-caused pandemic.

These challenges cannot be addressed by simply electing a black President such as Obama.  And, it must be impossible to fully settle them by electing Biden supported by liberals as president.

In 2001 and 2008, 200,000 Americans were not killed and a million global citizens were not killed.  But, this 2020 corona-virus pandemic is expected to kill a half million Americans and globally 3 million people till it will be subdued probably in the middle of 2021.  This pandemic must eventually trigger WWIII like the 2018 Spanish Flu became a prelude to Great Depression, the rise of Hitler, and WWII.

Since it looks impossible that the mankind can completely suppress and eliminate the possibility of emergence of viruses 10 times or more harmful than the present ones in the future, it can be estimated that the mankind face the collapse of their civilization, the danger of their extinction, or the end of the world in WWIII caused through conflicts among the Christian and Jewish countries, non-democratic China and Russia, and anti-Jewish Islamic countries in great global financial debacles and more fatal pandemics in the 21st century as Isaac Newton predicted that the end of the world might start around 2060.       

Indeed, this 2020 corona-pandemic seems to be a prelude to the more critical crisis, such as WWIII, that will happen in this century.  How will historians in the 22nd century describe the history of the 21st century even if they exist?

For example, they may write: the Son of the God appeared 2000 years after Abraham, and the mankind faced the end of the world 2000 years after they had executed the Son of the God, even if any historians, who might be robots, should exist in the 22nd century.  

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Mark 9    King James Version
28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?
29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
30 And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.
31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

"Thou son of David, have mercy on us" - Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

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Mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha to Save People from the Corona-Pandemic

Almost 800 years ago, when the political power was about to shift from the imperial court to a samurai regime in Japan, some unique and notable Buddhist monks appeared, establishing their own schools or versions of Buddhism.

One of them taught that people should concentrate on Buddha or specifically Amitabha Buddha to be saved in this world under control of Satan.  For this purpose, he said that people should just call the name of Amitabha Buddha and ask the deity to save them.  "People should just rely on mercy of Amitabha Buddha to be saved and allowed to enter into the paradise but should not rely on their efforts," he taught.  He asserted that believing in salvation of one's soul by Amitabha Buddha and calling its name was the only way for him to be saved in this corrupted world.

One might acquire enlightenment to be saved through long-term hard learning and rigorous ascetic training, but it is only possible for rare excellent saints such as the Buddha.  Such severe conditions should not be requested or expected to be fulfilled by ordinary people most of whom are poor and not highly educated.  Therefore, ordinary people should abandon their desperate efforts to enhance their levels in understanding truth of the life and the world as well as the paradise and the hell, in order to have their souls saved and allowed to go to the paradise.

Some Buddhist denominations built on such a creed are still active in Japan today.  

The teaching that good people can be saved because even bad people can be saved through calling the name of Amitabha Buddha is the core of their teachings.  According to such a school of Japanese Buddhism, no good deeds, study, training, etc. are useful and effective for one's souls to be saved.  Any man that calls Amitabha Buddha, relying on and trusting in its mercy can be saved and welcomed into the paradise.

It is a kind of anti-elite movement.  When the imperial court was losing political power, which had lasted for centuries, and samurai clans were gaining momentum with their military strength in the Japanese society 800 years ago, people were involve in big turmoil, conflicts, and attrition as well as various natural disasters, famines, etc.  Dead bodies were sometimes left even in streets and river banks of the capital Kyoto at the time of a civil war or a famine.  Buddhism that had been supported, managed, and diffused by the imperial court became useless to help and save ordinary and poor people and, especially, farmers.  Therefore, new schools of Buddhism came to be widely accepted by people around the 12th century of Japan.

Their teachings resemble some Christian principles written in the Bible.  However, the Bible stresses that love is the most important factor among faith, hope, and love.  The Bible ultimately declares that whoever calls the name of God for help can be saved.

For example, when one is suffering from corona-viruses, one's learned wisdom, scholarly achievements, past good deeds, social status and even wealth are useless.  One can and should only rely on mercy of the God or Amitabha Buddha.               

  

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Mat 9:26 And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.
Mat 9:27 And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.
Mat 9:28 And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Mat 9:29 Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.
Mat 9:30 And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief" - Activation or Deactivation of Some Genes trough Tragedy or Emergency

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Activation or Deactivation of Some Genes trough Tragedy or Emergency

Our body is built on genes on DNA, but it is said only less than 10% of genes are working in a cell.  It is also found that a mechanism to suppress activation of some genes plays an important role.

And, it is also studied what factors influence and how they influence activation of genes.  However, it is known that some factors inside and outside the body also influence genes.  It can be easily understood that natural environment influences work of genes to change physical properties of a man.  For example, people in Africa and other tropical regions have dark skins while those in northern areas have pale skins due to their genes.

It can be also understood that foods and physical exercise influence work of genes.  Even laboratory mice fed well in favorable environment grow healthy and sound.  But mice under various stress show various symptoms. 

The point at issue is how psychological or spiritual conditions affect work of genes.  For example, it is said when one faces a sudden tragedy or emergency his physical expression changes in a moment or he he suddenly starts to show extraordinary physical power.

In this context, it should be noticed that most of great religious people had experienced severe conditions to deepen and expand their religious ability.  Through hard ascetic training or living under severe conditions, they developed their faith to be great religious figures.  They must have activated some genes necessary to be excellent religious men.

Jewish people wandered through deserts for 40 years after exodus from Egypt led by Moses.  Christ Jesus spent 40 days in wildness while being tempted by Satan.  Even the tradition of having a simple life and enduring severe living conditions is somewhat inherited in Christianity.  Buddha spent six years in ascetic training even to get close to starvation, although he got enlightenment after this period of training.  Even today, it is recommended to Buddhist disciplinants to train themselves in ascetic training.  Confucius politically roamed and wandered among nations in the Chinese continent for 14 years.  Muhammed often practiced mediation in a cave in a desert.

So, it seems that Jewish people as a mass activated some genes to become religious people through the severe experience.  Christ Jesus, as a son of man, activated some genes to become a founder of new religion in the human world, if I may say so, through the fight against Satan in wilderness.  Or they must have suppressed work of unnecessary genes for their aims.

Especially to suppress unnecessary work of genes seems to be essential for a man to be religious or come to rely on the God.

In this context, a field of medical studies called epigenetics is important:

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression (active versus inactive genes) that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence — a change in phenotype without a change in genotype — which in turn affects how cells read the genes. Epigenetic change is a regular and natural occurrence but can also be influenced by several factors including age, the environment/lifestyle, and disease state. Epigenetic modifications can manifest as commonly as the manner in which cells terminally differentiate to end up as skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, etc. Or, epigenetic change can have more damaging effects that can result in diseases like cancer. At least three systems including DNA methylation, histone modification and non-coding RNA (ncRNA)-associated gene silencing are currently considered to initiate and sustain epigenetic change.1 New and ongoing research is continuously uncovering the role of epigenetics in a variety of human disorders and fatal diseases. (https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/#:~:text=Epigenetics)

Through pandemics in the past, the mankind must have activated some specific work of genes to suppress adverse effects of viruses in their bodies.  Even through this corona-virus pandemic, the mankind may come to activate some specific work of genes to suppress corona-viruses.  Or they may come to suppress some work of genes vulnerable to corona-viruses.

Men can activate or deactivate some work of genes, details of which we do not understand yet, through a tragedy or an emergency, like in the cases of ancient Jewish people.  Probably through hundreds of millions of years, the mankind must have evolved by changing their genes or their work through various tragedies and emergencies to the present status. 

So then, how will our genes be modified after this corona-pandemics?  But, when we fight against Satan and win the fight like in the case of Christ Jesus, we must evolve closer to the God, acquiring o suppressing specific work of genes.

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Mark 9 King James Version

23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

"if any man did confess that he was Christ" - Corona-Viruses as a Warning According to a School of Theology

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Corona-Viruses as a Warning According to a School of Theology

Where did we come from?  What are we?  Where are we going?  Only we know is that we do not know anything till the appropriate time has come. 

But Christ Jesus knew that He came from the God.  He was the secret Son of the God.  And He is going back to the God.  And He said that the appropriate time for us would come like a thief when we did not expect so that we should be always awake.

So we have to ask Him how he knows that He came from the God?  He might answer that it is because He is the secret Son of the God.  So we should ask how He knows that He is the secret Son of the God.  He might answer that because He was with the God as the Son of the God, but it is secret for some secret reason. 

Then, we may ask Him where we came from, what we are, and where we are going.   He would reiterate that the appropriate time for us would come like a thief when we do not expect so that we should be always awake.

Instead, Satan would tell us that we came from nowhere, we are nothing, and we go nowhere, and we just die and disappear, so that while we live, we had better get money as much as possible.  

Eventually, betraying Christ Jesus, we asked Satan to make us rich.  Stan should say to sell our souls to it for money.  And, most of us, betraying the God, have accepted the deal.

As a result, the God has become angry so as to send the Angel Death with corona-viruses to the human world.  And the result is known to everybody in the world.

We came from below Heaven to this world, as living things.  But we became evolved living things having spirits given by the God in Heaven.  And we are going to Heaven or the hell when we die as spiritual entities, because spirits we have must leave our bodies when we die.

The important thing is that Satan who came from the hell do not want any of us to enter Heaven.  We are involved in a kind of war between the God and Satan.  Satan hates so much the God and us who are loved by the God.  Therefore, Satan is trying to persuade us to think that we are nothing and there is nothing for us when we die, so that we had better pursue material happiness and money.

For the God, Satan is nothing.  It is apparent that the God can easily defeat Satan.  But as Satan started to interfere with human beings, He sent His Son to the human world to handle the matter cautiously for some reason.  Then, the Bible was written by human beings and the human world could continue for 2000 years.  But, the God must think that it is enough and the appropriate time has come.  So, as a warning, the God sent the Angel of Death with corona-viruses to the human world in 2020, since He plans to put the end of the human world in the 21st century by sending His Son again to the human world.

Accordingly, as a prelude or a warning, corona-viruses are spreading in the world now, according to a school of theology.

All we can do is to wish that the God would change His mind and plan, according to a school of theology.

        

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John 9    King James Version

20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

"How long is it ago since this came unto him" - An Evil Spirit Blocking Sound Work of the Immune System

 

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An Evil Spirit Blocking Sound Work of the Immune System

If work of the bran, namely the mind, is not sound, a man can lose control of himself, leading to madness or illness.  In ancient days, when a man was in such a state, it was thought that the man was haunted by evil spirit.  So, it is reported in the Bible that Christ Jesus cured the sick or the mad by driving evil spirits out of them.

One example is as follows:

Mar 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

Mar 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Mar 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.

Mar 1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.

Mar 1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.

All the cells in the body are directly or indirectly connected to the nerve system that is linked to the brain.  Therefore, when a malfunction occurs in brain cells, an adverse effect should appear in cells of some parts of the body.  In other words, when psychologically or biologically the brain cells get out of tune through one's feeling or thinking consciously or subconsciously, a bad influence can appear in some parts of the body through autonomous nerve systems directly or indirectly controlling cells of body parts.

If you admit existence of spirits that can influence work of the mind of a man, you would admit that an evil spirit could cause illness or madness in the man.  And you would understand that Christ Jesus really cured the sick or the mad by expelling the evil spirit from his brain or mind.

The modern medical science cannot yet identify all the causes for every illness, such as cancer or  disorder of the mind.  But, it must be effective to think that disorder or a bad influence of an evil spirit on one's nerve system is a major cause.     

In this context, it is interesting how Christ Jesus would heal a corona-virus infected man.  What evil spirit would be expelled out of the man?  It must be the evil spirit who blocked sound work of the autonomous nerve system that is linked to the immune system.     

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Mar 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

Mar 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

Mar 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

Mar 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Mar 9:24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Mar 9:25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

Mar 9:26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

Mar 9:27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.

Mar 9:28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

Mar 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

"one of the old prophets is risen again" - A Specific Gene to Suppress Coronaviruses

 

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A Specific Gene to Suppress Coronaviruses

Identical twins have the same genes and DNAs, but they come to look and behave a little different, showing each uniqueness, as time goes by.  It is thought that their genes were not activated in the same manner: some genes are switched on only in one of them and other genes are switched on only in the other. 

Even a queen bee has the same genes as those in a worker drone.  But a young worm of bees that eats royal jelly becomes a queen bee, and other young worms that do not eat royal jelly become worker drones.  The queen been grows 1.5 times larger and lives 20 times longer than a worker drone, producing 2,000 eggs per day.

There are 3 billion bases in DNA and 23,000 genes on DNA of a human being.  However, how each of base and gene works is not yet completely understood.  And how each gene is switched on is not completely clarified.

Even some scientists are afraid that this kind of study might cause extinction of the human species, since fatal and bad genes might be switched on in the wrong time as a result of study.

Yet, it is thought that Christ Jesus healed the sick and caused miracles on people by activating some desirable genes in them.  So, it is natural and reasonable that we try to find the way to switch on desirable genes. 

So far, it has been found that foods, exercise, and environment influence activation of genes.  To keep health, we had better care for foods and physical exercises.  To keep suitable physical and psychological conditions for better living, we had better care for environment.  Then, necessary and desirable genes would be switched on.

Although a significant amount of our genes and bases in DNA in us seem to have been introduced by viruses into cells of our ancestors and inherited up to us, say over millions or more years, there must be some genes not yet found in our cells that can suppress invasion of viruses into cells of our bodies.  And to activate them, we have to take necessary foods and exercises and set up a desirable environment around us.    

Otherwise, we had better read the Bible and wish that the power of Christ Jesus would reach us over 2000 years of the time span and beyond vast geographical distance.  Then, some parts of DNA might be changed to a specific gene with the ability to suppress corona-viruses. 

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Luke 9    King James Version

18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
19 They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again.
20 He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

"the Jews did not believe concerning him" - Dying Man and a Different Phase of the World

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Dying Man and a Different Phase of the World

A Japanese in the profession for handling the dead in a funeral company found that most of the dead had soft faces regardless whether they were good people or gangsters.  But religious people such as monks, priests, etc. did not truly see their faces, and even bereaved families were absorbed in worldly matters while sitting before dying men.

It is said that more than 100,000 people have died every month in Japan nowadays (not including victims of the corona-pandemic).

He thought how dying men would see the world and what they felt.  And he checked various books including ones written by past prominent Buddhist monks, Christian scholars, and poets to find that some dying men saw some kind of beauty in the world around them.  Even some felt light in the space.

But his wife did not like the profession of her husband to cleans dead bodies, as she thought people would look down on such a profession.  His uncle also despised him.  But when his uncle was dying in a hospital, he went to visit him for the first time in many years.  His unlcle showed gratitude for his nephew's visit from the bottom of his heart in his dying bed, and soon after it, he died.  On the occasion, the funeral company man felt light with unusual color around him.  The gratitude his dying uncle showed to him moved something in his mind, although he had been long despised or rather hated by his uncle as his profession had been regraded as throwing dirt at his clan.  Every business related to death, except religion and medical services, has been socially despised or looked down on.

Through these experiences, the funeral company man deepened his thought about death.  Eventually, he wrote a book based on his experiences and his quest on death.  It became a best seller in Japan,  and TV station staff came to make an interview with him.  He talked hours especially focusing on Buddhism, but in a broadcast program, all his talks about religion were cut out of the broadcast.

Without religious sense, he concluded, death could not be understood.  And every death could lead a dying man to a different phase of the world or situations around him.  No matter if it could be medically or biologically explained why dying men saw unique light and smiled, it must be a phenomenon that could be understood only from a religious point of view.

In this way, the funeral company man has become a unique writer and been invited to lecture presentation 2,000 times in 20 years in Japan, although he did not launch any religious organization or cult.     

One piece of his advice is to let children see a dying family member and make them have a concrete image of death, so that such children would not run to extremes and could respect life and living things.

All I can hope is that dying people due to corona-viruses would not forget seeing light and smiling beyond their pain, since any death would show a dying man a different phase of the world, like Andersen's "The Little Match Girl."    

      

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John 9    King James Version

16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
21 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

"looking up to heaven, he blessed them" - Do Not Eat Much, Do Not Cool Yourself, but Activate Necessary Genes

 

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Do Not Eat Much, Do Not Cool Yourself, but Activate Necessary Genes

Here is advice for people wishing to secure their health against corona-viruses, etc.:
Do not eat too much, since gluttony decreases the level of immunity in the body.
Do not cool the body, since low temperature decreases immunity.

And, a Japanese medical doctor who worked even after 90 years of his age advised to activate desirable genes in cells of one's body.

The natural healing power of a man depends on work of some genes in cells of his body.  Medical services just help patients activate necessary genes.  But Christ Jesus, when healing the sick, must have activated his genes to conquer the disease.

We have not yet discovered a scientific way to activate necessary genes like Christ Jesus did.  All we have to do is to read the Bible so as to purify our minds and direct our consciousness toward our bodies and cells, and pray and wish that necessary genes would be activated in response to our prayer and wish.          

So, it is lucky, when you are sick, if you have nurses, etc. around you, who have faith in God and real compassion to you, since they will provide medical services for you with prayer to the God, wishing that you become well and thus activating necessary genes in your body.  

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Luke 9    King James Version

14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

"the scribes questioning with them" - Close to the Biblical End of the World

 

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Close to the Biblical End of the World

Epidemiology of plague is discussed as follows in Wikipedia:

The pandemics were:

the first plague pandemic from 541 to ~750, spreading from Egypt to the Mediterranean (starting with the Plague of Justinian) and northwestern Europe[3]

the second plague pandemic from ~1331 to ~1855, spreading from Central Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe (starting with the Black Death), and probably also to China[3]

the third plague pandemic from 1855 to 1960, spreading from China to various places around the world, notably India and the West Coast of the United States.[4]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_plague) 

The first pandemic caused the shift of people from the Mediterranean to the central parts of West Europe mainly through rivers, leading to development of Paris, London, the Netherlands, etc.

The second pandemic caused the shift in Christianity from the Vatican-centered Catholicism to the more liberal Protestantism, leading to expansion of Protestantism to North America.

The third pandemic became underlying conditions or a warning to the global wars including WWI, WWII, and the Cold War in addition to the Opium war, the US Civil War, the Japanese-Russo War, etc.

The world has survived to the present day despite these pandemics with West Europe, North America, the Vatican, and Protestant churches leading the civilization that was built over these pandemics.

But, this corona-pandemic was generated and started to spread from China challenging Western countries and trying to get hegemony over the world, while using technologies developed in Western countries.  The global shift of power seems to continue since the end of the Roman Empire through the rise, stagnation, and rebirth of the Vatican, the material success of European countries and America based on Protestantism, and the material development of non-Christian East Asia (Japan, China, etc.) caused by the material success in Christian West Europe and America.    

In this context, the world is entering the last phase of the 2000-year long development based on Christianity.  As the Christian world could not fully realize the ideal presented and suggested by Christ Jesus for 2000 years, China, Islamic countries, militarism Russia, etc. have come to be given chances to have influence on the global history.  But it is unlikely that China, Russia, Islamic countries, etc. can achieve what West Europe, America, and Japan cannot fully establish subject to the teaching of Christ Jesus and the Bible.

Finally, the world history must see that nobody, including Christians and non-Christians, could fulfill the request from the God to the mankind.  The 21st century must witness the result of the human civilization that has been developed and established in these 2000 years since Jesus Christ's birth.

The human civilization developed along with pandemics while some times decisively having been influenced by the pandemics.   But, the God may use another pandemic, if not this corona-pandemics, to put the end of the human civilization.

In this context, it cannot be expected that the 22nd century will come easily without the mankind passing through other decisive pandemics that will surely occur in the 21st century.   We must be close to the danger of the Biblical end of the world.

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Mark 9    King James Version
11 And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?
12 And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he must suffer many things, and be set at nought.
13 But I say unto you, That Elias is indeed come, and they have done unto him whatsoever they listed, as it is written of him.
14 And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
15 And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.