"Don't Let Me Down!"

"Don't Let Me Down!"

(Vous ne devez pas faire de moi triste)


I really hope that poor Americans would focus on the following figure (by clicking it for a better view).
There is no such a poor American that does not know that Mr. Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize by working on the issue of Global Warming.

There is no such a poor American that does not know that President Mr. George Bush is promoting development of alternative fuels, wind power generation, and solar power generation in addition to securing oil fields domestically and overseas.

There is no such a poor American that does not know that hurricanes, tornadoes, drought, wild fires, floods and other natural disasters are nowadays inflicting US citizens more than ever.

However, at Layer 7, they are still using very incomplete equations to calculate real effects and get insight into underlying science.

At Layer 6, they are doubtfully and selectively only focus on CO2.

At Layer 5, they are handling matters mainly being driven by economic interest of their own.

At Layer 4, you don't have to especially focus on leaders and super-rich people, since the amount of consumption of electricity is ever increasing; the number of cars and jet planes is ever increasing; and new plants and buildings are being built everywhere in China, Indian, and the Persian Gulf states.

Indeed, you have to upend the figure to see importance of levels.

Truly, you must not neglect or take lightly the level 3, 2, and 1.

Put simply, don't let them down.




(Before this New Year Holiday, I felt like enjoying a DVD movie.

So I purchased a DVD titled "New Orleans."

Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday seem to be two of main heroes in the story.

But, I only watched its leading part of several minutes, since I was busy.

Today or tomorrow, I will see it all, since Louis and Billie in Heaven may be complaining: "Do not let us down!"

Ok, good girls may be starting a nice new year, here and there.)




"THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM"

(WANN KOMMT DAS ENDE?)



　

"They're Gonna Crucify Me!!"

"They're Gonna Crucify Me!!"

(Ils vont me crucifier!)


I have not yet received information on the primary outcomes from Iowa, since it is now 11 a.m. in Japan.

Whatever result they may get, I hope that, for example, Mitt, Hillary, and Barack continue to work on as somebody that can check and warn against a new US President, in case of their failure in whatever campaign, since incumbent President Mr. George Bush does not unfortunately seem to have such a figure.

And, they have one good example Mr. Al Gore has presented by being a missionary for prevention of global warming.

If they fail in whatever campaign, I hope that, for example, Mitt, Hillary, and Barack continue to work for a US Religious Revolution.


SECTION 1: A New Year Resolution Recommended for Poor Americans

"Love our enemies."

There are tow types of rich men: those who love to see poor people suffering and those who do not at all.

The point is that we cannot appreciate the difference outwardly among them; and if they are loved, the latter will stop their wrong-doing and avoid a sin of being rich and richer than you.


SECTION 2: A New Year Resolution Recommended for Asian Americans

"Forgive our enemies."

There are tow types of racists and gangsters: those who love to see the poor, the weak, and the handicapped suffering and those who do not at all.

The point is that we cannot appreciate the difference outwardly among them; and if they are loved, the latter will stop their wrong-doing and avoid a sin of being rich and richer than you.


SECTION 3: A New Year Resolution Recommended for Muslim Americans

"Be merciful to others as our Allah is."

There are tow types of Christians: those who love to see Muslims or Israelites suffering and those who do not at all.

The point is that we cannot appreciate the difference outwardly among them; and if they are loved, the latter will stop their wrong-doing and avoid a sin of being rich and richer than you.


SECTION 4: A New Year Resolution Recommended for Indigenous/Native-Tribe-Related Americans

"Have courage!"

There are tow types of European Americans: those who love to see Native Americans suffering and those who do not at all.

The point is that we cannot appreciate the difference outwardly among them; and if they are loved, the latter will stop their wrong-doing and avoid a sin of being rich and richer than you.


(For this New Year Holiday season, which is partly still going on in Japan, I bought a new version of "Go" game software a coupe of weeks ago.

As I have been very busy over the year end, the new software is yet to be tested.

I think I will find a time today for it.

What I enjoy in the game against my PC is whether I can win or not while placing a go piece one after another as quick as possible without thinking much about a strategy and a situation on the go board.

A merit of a PC is that it responds as quickly as I do in most cases, so that a game or a duel is always over without taking much time.

But, if you get used to this way of playing go, you will not be a nice and comfortable opponent to other person, since your way must look so rude and arrogant to a human being.

So, a new year resolution recommended for you may be not to crucify your opponent over a go board, a chess board, or a shogi board, if he or she is a serious or jealous guy.

Of course, I can contain it, but do not crucify me any way.)



"...Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God..."

(Er ist das Bild des unsichtbaren Gottes)



　　

Did God Say, Let There Be Dollars?

Did God Say, Let There Be Dollars?

(Dit le Seigneur, «Que les choses soient le dollar?")



SECTION 1: The Dollar Conundrum

Last month, an expert hoisted two agendas:

- A weak dollar is fueling inflationary pressures and making both markets and policymakers nervous.

- Some wonder if countries in Asia and the Middle East will drop their dollar pegs, or if another currency wil...

https://www.economy.com/home/login/ds_proLogin.asp?script_name=/dismal/pro/article.asp&cid=101589


Indeed, it must be the dollar but not CO2 that might be focused on to save mankind and the world.

Or did anybody scribe, "God said, Let there be dollars, and US banks started to print out so many bills to let them be?"


SECTION 2: A Few Things about the Dollar

According to a theory, there are 300 trillion dollars having been printed out and being circulated in the world.

Yet, it is just 8 trillion dollars businesses and governments need for payment of accounts and transfer of money in the global trading.

What's more, it is said that the US financial derivatives market had a volume of 300 trillion dollars in 2005 and 500 trillion dollars in 2007 in terms of purchase contracted.

In 1980, the ratio of the magnitude of "real economy" vs. "money economy" was 9 to 1, though the ratio turned to be 1 to 9 in 2000.

It also means that anything horrible could happen after 2000; and the 9/11 Terror on the U.S. occurred actually in 2001 while people concerned became gluttons of money and got intoxicated with overflowing dollars here and there.


SECTION 3: Not Only Crude Oil but Also Dollars

Mr. Alan Greenspan reportedly wrote that US President Mr. George Bush had ordered military invasion of Iraq to secure the crude oil fields in Iraq.

In fact, the confirmed oil reserve in Iraq is the second largest following that of Saudi Arabia, while that of the U.S is expected to be depleted in one or two decades.

But, Mr. Alan Greenspan might have to point at another aspect: defense of the status of the dollar as another motivation for the invasion of Iraq.

"The second objective is to scare away any other countries to even think about de-linking dollar from the oil trading. De-linking oil trading from dollar will diminish the special status of the dollar and the ability of the US economy to buy goods and services virtually free from the rest of the world and to force countries with trade surplus with the US to lend money to the US. That would certainly destroy the economy of the US built on borrowed money."

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/830/1/83/

But, the following point may be what Mr. Greenspan cannot write in his book due to his former official position:
"If France, Germany, Japan, Russia and a number of OPEC oil countries would shift even a small portion of their dollar reserves into euro to buy bonds of Germany or Frances or the like, the United States would face a crisis beyond which, would destroy its economy."


SECTION 4: 100 Dollar Oil for Whom?

Now the world media is reporting that the oil price has reached 100 dollars for the first time in history.

Today, 80 million barrels of oil are produced everyday, so that oil producing countries in total get 8 billion dollars per day, resulting in incomes of 2.9 trillion dollars per year most of which will be put into the international money market where US financial companies are major players.

For comparison, the sub-prime loan problem is said to have been triggered by securitization of the loans worth 600 billion (0.6 trillion) dollars.

And, just one year ago, they reported in the International Herald Tribune:

"Exxon's performance last year allowed it to surpass Wal-Mart as the largest company in United States, and by some measures Exxon became richer than some of world's largest oil-producing nations. For instance, its revenue of $371 billion surpassed the gross domestic product of $245 billion of Indonesia, an OPEC member and the world's fourth most populous country with 242 million people."

Of course, a year ago, the oil price was not 100 dollars per barrel.

Is this price rise just a mere surprise for companies in this sector such as Exxon?

If so, they will be probably more surprised when the God interferes.



(The last thing hiding in the Pandora's Box must be the US Dollar.

The US dollar together with crude oil may be using CO2 as a scapegoat.

In addition, now you know why the US Government once let the media attack France that was promoting power of Euro without joining the U.S. to invade Iraq.

Indeed, the US dollar stirred up enmity even between the U.S. and France.

Truly, we must carefully treat any agenda concerning US Dollars between us, even personally.

Or, shall I check the inside of the Box more, say, for a kind of diamonds or a new type of LEDs made in Japan?)



"...They will disappear, but you will remain..."

(Sie werden vergehen, du aber bleibst)




　

After the Beginning There Prepared Were Crude Oil and CO2

After the Beginning There Prepared Were Crude Oil and CO2

(Après le début, il y avait préparé le pétrole brut et le CO2)



SECTION 1: Global Warming

In the holy night of January 1, 2008, when I turned on the TV for the first time in these three days since having viewed Mr. Fidel Castro in an interview program on December 29, 2007, I happened to watch a climate change/global warming-related program presented by Japan's NHK TV station.

It reported that an ice shelf with a size 1.5 times larger than Tokyo Prefecture was recently collapsed to the sea from the Antarctic Continent.

It also reported on advanced business dealing with CO2 emission credits in Europe.

It did not forget to focus on Mr. Al Gore.

But, it did not focus on the late Ms. Benazir Bhutto.

They should be focused on Religious Revolution, too.


SECTION 2: Courage Here and There

Mr. Brent Budowsky, a pundit of the Hill, recently mentioned both Mr. Al Gore and Benazir Bhutto.

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/12/28/what-gore-clinton-and-democrats-can-learn-from-benazir-bhutto/#more-2316

...Benazir Bhutto gave her life for her country; Democrats so often lack the courage of their convictions to risk even a few points in the polls; and Al Gore racks up the prizes and awards, no doubt deserved, but sadly silenced when the man who should have been leader of the free world had higher priorities....

Good-bye, Benazir. You may be gone, but you will be remembered and honored. Perhaps some day in the land that gave us Washington and Lincoln, some heroic leader will emerge once again, inspired by your courage and your example, and rise above the mediocrity and timidity of our times, as you did in yours....

Indeed, Benazir Bhutto was killed in the confusion caused by problems Islam cannot address so far.

Truly, Mr. Al Gore seems to be avoiding any fatal risks by carefully detaching himself from a possibility to become another JFK or Robert Kennedy, if not another Martin Luther King Jr., if I may say so.

The answer is, ultimately, a Religious Revolution both in the U.S. and in Pakistan.

Globally even the climate change cannot be adequately and effectively addressed without a Religious Revolution among mankind.


SECTION 3: South Dakota

New York Times Online reported on one American Dream being realized in South Dakota due to discovery of hopeful oil mines.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/us/01dakota.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

...“It seems like God flew over this country, and a dart landed on Granddad's homestead,” said John Warberg, who is being paid royalties for the new oil well on the land where his grandfather's crumbling, nearly century-old homestead shack stands....

but many scientists suspect that the Bakken may contain 200 billion barrels of oil — significantly more, for instance, than the much debated field in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Mr. Warberg, 55, said that he sometimes missed the solitude and silence he grew up with here, but he proudly pointed out the well that carried his family name on its sign. Standing on a rise beside the well on a recent evening, the distant sound of drilling echoed. The glow of flares — natural gas burning off — warmed the air and dotted the landscape...

“I hope the place won't change, but it probably will,” he said. “I have thought about this a lot. I guess what I hope is that I don't change.”

Indeed I hope that people like Mr. Warberg would also join a Religious Revolution.

Truly, they will then stay being unchanged and good old Americans, even if they are given oil fields by the God, thus passing a trail for Heaven.


SECTION 4: North Dakota

There are many arguments on TV programs in Japan, too.

One claims that there is no sense of seriousness, sincerity, and tension in most of TV programs broadcast in this Holiday Season which is still going on here in Japan.

TVs, PCs, and cellular phones may be the three Pandora's boxes.

Not to be contaminated by poisonous air they are lavishly sprinkling, you may like to retreat somewhere very remote, say, in North Dakota.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/06/3664/

Finally, in South and North, you have to introduce a Religious Revolution, since what we need is courage but probably not crude oil and CO2 having been prepared in a Pandora's Box, too, by somebody after the Beginning.



(By the way, dear, have you heard that "Smoking Banned in the Cafes of France?"

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-France-Smoking-Ban.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Of course, in the beginning, there were no signs of a cigarette, a TV set, a PC set, and a cell phone as well as man-made laws to be introduced billions of years later.)



"...and God's blessings were upon him..."

(...und man sah, dass Gott es liebte...)



　

Mt. Fuji of January 1, 2008

[click on the image]


Mt. Fuji of January 1, 2008 [100 kilo meters far]

(Mt. Fuji le 1er janvier 2008)



Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
* * *

This morning I could get and take Mt. Fuji, snowcapped, into my sight and also into a camera as shown above.

(So, they are the first pictures of Mt. Fuji taken in 2008 and made public to the world.)

It was a nice and clear winter day. Not many cars were running. The ground of a field was partly white with frost. Somebody was sitting on the roadside of a ramp, taking video pictures of Mt. Fuji. Somebody was riding on a bicycle. Somebody was hang-gliding. Cormorants were floating and diving into water of a big river very slowly flowing into Tokyo today. A grandmother was walking hand in hand with a very young grandson, descending a ramp.

Now it is past the noon of January 1, 2008, the holiest holiday for the Japanese race, regardless of wealth possessed by individuals.

Most of people must be paying their first visit of the year to a shrine nearby or notable.

To your surprise, I also like to visit a shrine; I will probably also pay my first visit to a shrine some time soon, though Mt. Fuji itself is the main body of a shrine.


(A Happy New Year, Personally!)



"...new wine must be poured into fresh wine-skins..."

(...neuer Wein gehort in neue Schlauche!...)





　

"I Saw a Miracle Tonight, Oh Boy!"

"I Saw a Miracle Tonight, Oh Boy!"

("J'ai vu un miracle ce soir. Oh, chers!")



Q1: What is "perfectly perfect?"

A1: Please refer to the figure below.


Q2: Why is Jesus Christ God?

A2: For example, Buddha is the one who approached to omnipotence by increasing his capability, say, from 9 to 99, from 99 to 999, and from 99999.... to the largest number in this world, and further from the largest number in this world to omnipotence.

But, Jesus Christ is the One who came from omnipotence to the largest number in this world, from the largest number in this world to 99999..., and from 99999... to any number, since He demonstrated His power all through "Incompleteness," "Completeness," "Neither Complete Nor Incomplete," and "Holy Source of Concepts & Logics," in His immeasurably precious life as a son of man on the earth, 2000 years ago.

When He said that a happy person doesn't need God, He preciously indicated, not as a discoverer or outsider like Buddha but as a Holy Insider, that how this agenda and concept "happiness" mankind will be forever pursuing is concerned with the sacred providence on which a world inside and outside a human mind has been formed after the Great Creation of Universe just intended to reveal the Greatness of God, for He is completely perfect.

His way of teaching is to direct mankind to "Holy Source of Concepts & Logics" in a manner that only an Angel, from Heaven, could do, just like the endowment of Islam to mankind.

Finally, if you are loved by God, He would give you an ability to see God in Jesus Christ as His true identity, though it must be observed through the highest ethical standard you might not be able to even dream of.


(Last night, again, when I was walking back in coldness, I spotted a [military-type] jet plane high in the winter sky just being identified with its navigation lights flickering.

It was cutting down from two o'clock high or northwesterly through the constellation Orion, targeting at the top star of the Orion's Belt, and exactly hit and passed it to fly away east-southeast.

Indeed, it was a night before New Year's Eve with the three stars high and cool, vertically aligned in a quadrangular formation of the constellation.

Truly, there was a sign that an Angel of God was near, very near, my dear. )

Hold On!

(Hold on!)



Hold On!
(Emprise sur!)


Hold On!
http://www.hushharbor.net/lyrics/l_1.html

Mar 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Mar 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.



(They say that there are 30 million poor Americans who would starve unless the US Government supplies food tickets for them.

All I can present to them is the word, "Hold on!", since a US Religious Revolution must be coming, coming, coming, indeed coming so soon.)


"Hold On!"
(Halten!)

A Boy from Cuba in 1999 and A Woman from Dubai in 2007

(From the north to Tokyo in the south as far as the Land Mark Bldg. in Yokohama)



A Boy from Cuba in 1999 and A Woman from Dubai in 2007

(Un Garçon de Cuba et d'une femme de Dubai)



Benazir Bhutto said, "When I was growing up I thought a woman could have it all and now I find that yes a woman can have it all but she has to be prepared to pay the price...," in "Doing it all: paying the price" of the following site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/wiwp/dyncon/bhutto.shtml#

Her death would lead to more determination of the Bush Administration on the War on Terror and political involvement in Pakistan, which would require more budgets and resources in addition to cooperation with Saudi Arabia.

Accordingly, the federal budget cut on domestic issues in the U.S. would be intensified.

Hence, the due interference to the sub-prime loan issue and crises in the financial industry by the US Government will be weakened.

Therefore, the pressure on Japan and China as well as GCC (oil producing Arab countries) to financially support the U.S. would become stronger, which would however further weaken the value of the dollar, leading to the global restructuring of the monetary system and economy (as predicted by unique Japanese critic Mr. Sakai Tanaka), in addition to US Military Global Re-deployment to which Japan is going to provide another huge financial support.

Also, the U.S. voters would be more alerted to the possible terror, recalling the 9/11 attacks, which should affect the outcome of the presidential primary election.

Just like the outcome of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 had haunted rather personally Mr. George W. Bush so much as to become determined to purge Saddam Hussein someday, the terror on Benazir Bhutto might haunt a new U.S. President in his/her policy on the War on Terror to be handed over by incumbent President Mr. George Bush.

Indeed, everybody will have to pay the price.

Truly, the real perpetrators of the 9/11 terror and the 12/27 terror will have to pay the price.
* * *

Mar 10:1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

Mar 10:2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

Mar 10:3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

Mar 10:4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

Mar 10:5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

Mar 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Mar 10:7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

Mar 10:8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Mar 10:9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
* * *

Now, a Japan's NHK satellite TV channel is broadcasting an interview program with Mr. Fidel Castro of Cuba, which was produced by a French TV company in 2003.

Before the 2000 US Presidential Election, a Cuban boy caught a big attention of the US media, since his mother, having left Cuba and her husband in 1999, had sacrificed her life trying hard to reach a beach of Florida with her very young son who only could make it but later was taken back to Cuba by his father through certain arrangement by then President Mr. Bill Clinton and Mr. Fidel Castro.

This incident eventually led to the victory of Mr. George W. Bush in Florida in 2000 (though it was like skating on the ice), thus leading to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 having been forced through by leveraging the fear of Islamic extremest terror among US citizens.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto before the 2008 US Presidential Election might lead to a victory of a certain candidate and a big change in the US policy in the international arena.

Indeed, a divorce in Cuba led to the victory of Mr. George Bush and the US invasion of Iraq.

Truly, a marriage launched or maintained somewhere on the earth may lead to a greater victory and a greater advancement of somebody or a certain country.



(It is said that no news is good news in Japan.

So, we have to suffer even bad news to be engaged in a holy duel in one place after another like Jesus' disciples 2000 years ago or today's some athletes running or skating here and there.

[By the way, do you think Japanese diplomats or ex-diplomats can cope with, or lead, their global counterparts in this era of various kinds of globalization?

How do they look to your eye, European blue or silver, American blue, black, or golden, Mediterranean grey, brown, or amber, or Asian brown, black, or platinum, even if not with a green eye?])


"THE PARABLE OF THE RICH FOOL"

(Uber die Habgier)




　

Nights of September 11, 2001 and December 27, 2007 in Japan Time

(Mountains north of the Kanto Plain with Tokyo on)



Nights of September 11, 2001 and December 27, 2007 in Japan Time

(Nuits du 11 septembre 2001 et le 27 décembre 2007 au Japon Time)



Yesterday morning, I thought I had to write about Boston, a US city, since an FEN (US Military) radio station program talked about, briefly but so impressively for me, a brave woman having been executed on a false charge in a witch hunting court in Boston a few hundred years ago.

But, this morning I have to write about Ms. Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister of Pakistan, since just like the night (in Japan Time) of September 11, 2001, last night I got a report about the assassination of her through the media while I was working late toward the midnight as usual, though this year it was December 27, 2007.

(Refer to an EEE reporter entry on October 20, 2007, where I mentioned the attempted assassination of her.)

Last night, BBC Radio on the Internet was first to confirm her death; then a minute or so later New York Times Online corrected its first and second articles on speculations about her safety and conditions. Wikipedia also updated within half an hour her information with a CNN screen image telling the attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

This morning, the fatal terror on Ms. Benazir Bhutto is the main feature on the front page of Japanese newspapers.

BBC Radio on the Internet is now also reporting a continued story of the terror that happened in Rawalpindi last night taking scores of lives including Ms. Bhutto, first elected prime minister of Pakistan in 1988 at the age of 35.

(Also refer to http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28bhuttocnd.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

"Mr. Galbraith’s father was accompanying Jacqueline Kennedy to a horse show in Lahore.

The two met again at Harvard, where Mr. Galbraith remembered Ms. Bhutto arriving as a prim, cake-baking 16-year-old fresh from a Karachi convent.

Ms. Bhutto often spoke of how her father encouraged her to study the lives of legendary female leaders, including Indira Gandhi and Joan of Arc, and as a young woman, she observed his political maneuvering up close.")

The significance of this incident lies in a potential influence on Muslims in the world as in the case of the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Afghanistan on September 9, 2001, which eventually and even today has allowed leaders of AlQaeda to hide in those regions.

However, Allah must bring peace to pious Muslims in 2008.
* * *

Joh 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

Joh 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Joh 10:3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

Joh 10:4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

Joh 10:5 And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

Joh 10:6 This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
* * *

The BBC Internet Radio was also reporting last night on Japan's Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda's arrival at Beijing, China, in the busy interval of its extensive reporting on the tragic incident in Pakistan.

The point of issue might be as to whose voices had led the late former Prime Minister of Pakistan to her own country from an exile.

I hope that Japan's Prime Minister, making a hard effort to resume the interrupted service of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Forces on the Indian Ocean, would always listen to right voices for his official trip abroad.



(But, I assure you, faithful believers viewing EEE Reporter, of your safety.

You are safe, because the voice of God and Allah must be one and the same, even if He speaks to you in whatever language.

In case, has He spoken English, German, or French to you? Or, Japanese?

[As for me, Japanese, so far, since I cannot sacrifice it at all.])



"WHAT LITTLE FAITH YOU HAVE!"

(Habt doch mehr Vertrauen!)




　　

If You Can Raise the Dead and Cast Out Devils

(Yet, Mt. Fuji in the Garden of Japan Like a Sword)



If You Can Raise the Dead and Cast Out Devils
(Si vous pouvez élever les morts et chassé des démons)



Every year in the Christmas season, one particular parson has been cursed: Judas Iscariot.

Is it a divine will to punish Judas, a certain person, as long as mankind cerebrates Christmas?

It is completely against the teaching of Jesus Christ.

Besides, is it possible that the God, the Son of God, or the Messiah cannot choose just 12 persons who never betray Him?

Is it possible that a success rate of the God, the Son of God, or the Messiah in any undertaking is just 92% (11/12) instead of 100%?

In addition, why weren't they just ten disciples instead of 12, though 12 is a base number for the Sumerians?

Yet, in this complicated theory, there must be another controversial disciple.

It might be Simon, who is called Peter.

Finally, if you can raise the dead and cast out devils, you do not have to betray Jesus Christ, since you can live on the ability as a saint by yourself.


Mat 10:1 And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Mat 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Mat 10:3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus;

Mat 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Mat 10:5 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:

Mat 10:6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Mat 10:7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Mat 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Mat 10:9 Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

Mat 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.


(The Boston RedSox won the Major League Baseball Championship with two Japanese pitchers this season.

An FEN radio program broadcast in the Tokyo area last night talked about and praised a woman who had been falsely charged and tried in a witch hunting court in Boston a few hundreds years ago but refused to testify falsely against other women so as to die by hanging herself while saving other women's lives.

The Boston Globe reported on December 25, 2007:
"...The dinner settings gave the men gathered for Christmas at the homeless shelter something they rarely experience: dignity and a bit of togetherness...

Shelter residents said they battle daily for respect from others, as well as from themselves...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/26/a_serving_of_dignity_compassion/

There must be some viewers of EEE Reporter in Boston: Merry Christmas, Louis! )



"LIFE IS AT WORK IN YOU"

(Das Leben ist bei der Arbeit in dir.)



　

A Very Rare Historical Fact in the 10th Century B.C.

(Tokyo Bay TV Sta., Downtown Back Alley, Hibiya Imperial Hotel, and Tokyo Queen?)



A Very Rare Historical Fact in the 10th Century B.C.
(Un fait historique très rare dans le 10ème siècle avant JC)



("The Queen of Sheba is mentioned as the 'Queen of the South' in the Matthew 12:42 and Luke 11:31 in the New Testament, where Jesus indicates that she and the Ninevites will judge the generation of Jesus' contemporaries who rejected him."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_Sheba

Yet, I wonder if there is a woman today who will be later called the "Queen of Sheba of the 21st Century.")


1Ki 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.

1Ki 10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

1Ki 10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

1Ki 10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built,

1Ki 10:5 And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

1Ki 10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

1Ki 10:7 Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

(This season, skating competitions are catching eyes of audience in Japan.

I have recently recalled the music Gloria, though in a very different context; Indeed very different, but truly called to my mind.
http://www.oracleband.net/Lyrics/gloria.htm

And, haven't they got a nice Xmas gift, indeed, have they, dear?)



"TAKE CARE OF MY LAMBS"

(Sorge fur meine Lammer!)




　　

Ten Commandments, JESUS, and What Else?

(Kamikaze? Air-Force One? Maybe Baby You Are Greeting!)



Ten Commandments, JESUS, and What Else?
(Dix commandements, Jésus, et quoi encore?)



(I will also say, "Ten Commandments, Jesus, and what else do you need in addition to EEE Reporter and some Angels here and there?)


Deu 10:1 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

Deu 10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

Deu 10:3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

Deu 10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.




"JESUS HEALS TEN MEN"

"Jesus heilt zehn Aussätzige"





　　

A Christmas Eve Story

Feliz Navidad!
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Feliz-Navidad-Tatiana/dp/B00000161M/ref=pd_rhf_p_2


A Christmas Eve Story
(Une histoire à la veille de Noël)


Around 1615 in Japan, though its 100-year-long Civil War Age had been over 30 years before with the victory of Hideyoshi of the Toyotomi Family who had even tried to invade China through the Korean Peninsula (to punish a Chinese dynasty for their arrogance), the final civil war by samurais for the hegemony of Japan was fought between the Tokugawa clan coming down from Suruga (300 km east of Kyoto) and the Toyotomi family in Osaka (30km west of Kyoto) after the death of Civil- War-Age Hero Hideyoshi.

When Ieyasu won this war, where 300,000 Tokugawa samurai soldiers and 100,000 Toyotomi samurai soldiers were engaged in mortal battles, to seize the power all over Japan, he as a matter of course purged all the feudal lords who had joined the Toyotomi camp and fought confining themselves around the massive Osaka Castle during battles.

But, there were two exceptions. Two samurai feudal lords were exceptionally forgiven by Ieyasu, so that their clans could enjoy the title and position as well as prosperity under the Tokugawa samurai regime until 1868.

One samurai is Kazushige Aoki who had once served Ieyasu before he rendered homage to Hideyoshi. Ieyasu knew how brave and strong Aoki was so that Ieyasu engineered a plot to keep Aoki under restraint in Kyoto when Aoki visited Ieyasu in Suruga as an emissary from the Toyotomi Family. Eventually, Aoki could not join the battle in the Osaka Castle for the Toyotomis where tens of thousands of various sizes of matchlock guns were used (the largest harquebus-based war in the world).

After the war, Aoki was pardoned by Ieyasu who admired the past valor of Aoki and gave a fief or a territory in the north of the Yodogawa River of Osaka. The Aokis enjoyed prosperity under the Tokugawa samurai regime until 1868.

Another samurai is Nagatsugu Ito who actually fought until the end against the Tokugawa samurais around the Osaka Castle, but finally left for a mountain area after the fall of the Castle so as to commit a suicide with his own sword (called "seppuku" or "harakiri").

When Ito was waiting for an inspector of his seppuku, there came was a pardon issued by Ieyasu. Ito could secure his old fief and the position of a feudal lord. The Itos enjoyed prosperity under the Tokugawa samurai regime until 1868.

Taking into consideration the well-known severity of the samurai world 400 years ago, these two cases tell how much Ieyasu Tokugawa appreciated the valor of Kazushige Aoki and a certain merit of Nagatsugu Ito.

But, as for Ito, what merit did he have?

One theory is that Nagatsugu Ito was a samurai spy who had been working covertly for Ieyasu since another battle fiercely fought by the two camps in Sekigahara east of Kyoto 15 years before the decisive war in Osaka.

While joining the Toyotomi Family in the Osaka Castle, Nagatsugu Ito must have continued to provide critical information for the Tokugawa camp for 15 years, which led to the overwhelming victory of Ieyasu in Osaka, allowing him to set the foundation of the Tokugawa samurai regime, based in Edo (Tokyo), that lasted 250 years till 1868.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieyasu

(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%98%AA%E5%9F%8E%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92)

( http://www.infonet.co.jp/ueyama/ip/episode/nagatsugu.html )
* * *

After the Magi or three Wise Men from the East confirmed that a Messiah was born among Israelites and returned to their home, did they just keep silent on the fact or forget about it?

My interpretation is that they sent a kind of agents or spies to Palestine after their return so as to monitor how the baby Jesus would grow up and act.

Probably, about 20 years after their return to home, Magi sent an agent to Israelites to witness how grown-up Jesus would act.

The name of the agent might have been Judas.
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After the crucifix of Jesus, Roman Governor of Palestine Pontius Pilate experienced some mysterious incidents from a view point of today:

"In approximately 36, Pilate used arrests and executions to quash what appears to have been a Samaritan religious procession in arms that may have been interpreted as an uprising. [5] Pilate's behaviour was so offensive to the morals of the time that, after complaints to the Roman legate of Syria, Pilate was recalled to Rome, where he disappears from historic record. Pilate's supposed suicide [citation needed] is merely a legend, and not derived from any historical account."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate

According to description of Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus in Wikipedia, "The Gospels record that during Tiberius' reign, Jesus of Nazareth preached and was executed under the authority of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. In the Bible, Tiberius is mentioned by name only once, in Luke 3:1, stating that John the Baptist entered on his public ministry in the fifteenth year of his reign. Many references to Caesar (or the emperor in some other translations), without further specification, actually refer to Tiberius."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius_Caesar_Augustus

Pontius Pilate might have, by mistake, killed somebody Roman Emperor or his direct subjects had sent as special agent to Palestine.
* * *

On February 22, 2007, I wrote in EEE Reporter:
"According to a recent astronomical study, a great eclipse of Jupiter by the new moon or the crescent occurred, in a manner that captured great attention of then astrologers, that is, on the horizon, on March 20 and April 17, 6 B.C.

(In 6 B.C., a Roman Governor in Syria is said to have held a census count.)

There is also a description that the parents of Child Jesus traveled due to a census count, and gave His birth in a not so cold environment.

Therefore, Jesus Christ might have been born in April 17, 6 B.C."

But, it also looks like an authentic thought that Jesus was born on the 360th day of the year and also in the 12th month of the year, since he had a duty to glorify Abraham and other ancestors, namely descendants of the Sumerian Civilization that had introduced the duodecimal calculation method, that is, based on the base number 12 or 60.

Then we have two Jesus' born on December 25, 7 B.C. and April 17, 6 B.C., respectively.
* * *

It is still a fantasy or a simple speculation, but we had better take note of the following theory:
(a) Judas might have been an agent sent by the Magi some 20 years after the birth of Jesus, since Judas' story was too drastic as an ordinary follower and betrayer.

(b) There might have been a special agent the Roman Emperor sent to Palestine almost for the same reason as the Magi did, since the Emperor had a certain reason to do so as the God chose the specific era with the specific Roman Emperor for His great plan.

(c) The Roman Governor might not have known existence of any of those two agents above described while he for himself was using a spy to monitor Jesus called King of Israelites by His followers.

(d) Eventually, the old Magi got a report that both Jesus and their agent died in a tragic manner each, while the Roman Emperor also got a report that both the so-called Israelite Messiah and his special agent died in a tragic manner each, probably on a cross on the same occasion outside Jerusalem.

(e) So, the Magi continued to help Israelites revolt against Romans in a different manner, while the Roman Emperor had his Governor take the blame.
* * *

In the era of the cold war in the 20th century, there are tens of thousands of spies and agents between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

So, in the era of the hot war in the first century, there must have been at least two agents or spies between ancient Persia and the Roman Empire, especially in strategically critical Palestine, since it was just one or two generations after the death of Cleopatra.
* * *

The emergence of Jesus Christ allowed for, among all, eventual avoidance of the all-out catastrophic war between the West and the East in the ancient world, in my interpretation respectfully being offered to my Lord.

But, the rigorous intelligence war must have been going on even in those days, which must have been reflected in the Gospel.

And, I think that this way of interpretation of the Gospel must be meaningful for us living today.

Indeed, still the war is going on in Iraq with a certain covert involvement of Iran.

Truly, armed conflicts are still going on in Palestine with a certain overt involvement of the U.S.



(Japan is the first country to celebrate the Christmas Eve on the earth among major countries, since it is situated at the end of the east.

Japanese must be also the first to present the new way of pious interpretation of the Bible.

And, I may be the first to extend the greeting of this season to you, since some of these days you will miss me honey.)



"Where, Death, is your victory?"

(Wo, Tod, ist dein Sieg?)




　　

Anger and Wrath of 2007

(Gee! Japan's largest artificial Xmas tree in the Hibiya Park yet to be lit up.)


Anger and Wrath of 2007
(La colère et la colère de l'année 2007)


I have a feeling that the following three topics have been viewed mostly in this year in the EEE Reporter blog, which is however beyond my expectation:

EEE-Reporter: The Silk Road 25 Years Ago
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2007/08/silk-road-25-years-ago.html

EEE-Reporter: People's Hero and the Sword
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2007/07/peoples-hero-and-sword.html

EEE-Reporter: Earthquakes and Awe of God Common to Japan and the War Area
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2007/07/earthquakes-and-awe-in-god-common-to.html

Indeed, silk, the sword, and the earthquake are three of major features of Japan.
* * *

US CIA and FBI may arrest the leaders of AlQaeda based on description of EEE Reporter.

US Department of the Treasury and Wall Street may avoid catastrophe based on description in EEE Reporter.

Nonetheless, I would like to extend my compassion to all who have been victimized this year by the domestic and overseas policies of the U.S. Government the number of whom is, according to ABC, CNN, New York Times Online, and so on, large.

I would also like to deliver a memorial address to all the families of every fallen soldier who had justly performed his/her duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Please double click on the image, if you like.)
* * *

It is said that 100 or so Japanese citizens were abducted by the intelligence agency of North Korea, especially, in 1970's and 1980's.

North Korea brainwashed those Japanese abductees so that they would cooperate with the agency in covert actions.

For example, some of them were forced to teach Japanese to spies of North Korea who could then easily enter South Korea via Japan as Japanese.

I really strogly hope that North Korea will change its policy, if not through a coup, and release all the Japanese abductees as soon as possible, or otherwise accept full-scale investigation in North Korea by the Japanese Government, since a mother of one of those abductees is said to have converted to Christianity for her wish to save her daughter relying on the divine power.
* * *

If a man gets angry, the anger can be often abused by bad guys.

That is why Jesus Christ said to forgive our enemies despite our anger or wrath against our enemies.

Anyway, if we have silk, the sword, and the earthquake, we do not have to adhere to anger or wrath.


(If you work sincerely in Tokyo, you may face daily various incidents that would spark fury.

Neither Christmas nor New Year festivity would fully resolve the suppressed emotion.

You would have to probably restart your spiritual journey from 2000 years ago, if not from 4000 years ago.

That is Christmas, which I really think about for you.)




"..She went into Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth..."

(Dort ging sie in das Haus von Zacharias und begrusste Elisabet)

KING OF ISRAELITES AND ROMANS WAS BORN (on the 360th Day in 7 BC)!

Look at the flowers in the Arakawa river bank!Look at the bird over the Sagami Bay!
Even Mt. Tsukuba could dive into Tokyo Bay!



KING OF ISRAELITES AND ROMANS WAS BORN (on the 360th Day in 7 BC)!
(KING des Israélites et des Romains était né!)


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Jesus must be born on the 360th day of the year, since He was born as one of descendants of Abraham, a son of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia who had started the use of the duodecimal calculation method, that is, based on the base number 12 or 60.

Therefore, He must be born on December 25th of a leap year that has 366 days, from a view of the current calendar system, since:
December 25 (360th), 26 (361th), 27 (362th), 28 (363th), 29 (364th), 30 (365th), and 31 (366th).

Also,"the 'Julian Calendar' was originally established by Julius Caesar in the　year -45 [BC46]*. The Julian Calendar is a 365-day year of 12 months, every fourth year is a leap year and has 366 days. It was refined to its final form in the year +8 [AD8]. A Julian Date is a Date in the Julian Calendar and should not be confused with a 'Julian Day' as defined above."
http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/iso8601/y2kdat.htm

Though Julius Caesar set this "Julian Calendar," Augustus forbade his subjects and the people to use a leap year for 8 BC to 4 A.D. in a calendar, for the people had used a leap year in every three years then.
(Ref: http://www4.airnet.ne.jp/mira/seishu/term/julian.html)

So, it is complicated; but it must be like that on December 25 of 3 BC or 7 BC Jesus was born, if 46 BC is the starting year of the calendar Caesar introduced, since Jesus was the King of Israelites and Romans.
* * *

Indeed, Caesar is thus significantly linked to Jesus through the Christmas Holiday.

Truly, Cleopatra might have been significantly linked to Mother Mary or other ladies around Jesus in His days on the earth.



(I wish you a Merry Christmas, Jesus!
I wish you a Merry Christmas, everyone!
I wish you a Merry Christmas, Mesdemoiselles!

And, is a night train running to, say, Jerusalem?)



"...Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left..."

(...Da warf Judas das Geld in den Tempel, lief fort...)

L'Année 2007

(Hibiya around the Imperial Palace Plaza: The Imperial Theater, Former General MacArthur's Office, Palace Hotel, the Imperial Hotel.....a kind of infrastructures of power, wealth, and prestige in Japan)


The Year 2007
(L'Année 2007)


Noteworthy General Incidents This Year:
(1) The First Significant Female or Minority Candidate for US Presidency Gaining Momentum

(2) Prevention of Fatal Aggravation of Situations around Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran

(3) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Regulate Citizens' Possession of Guns

(4) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Regulate Sub-prime Loan-based Housing

(5) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Preserve Crude Oil and Develop New Fuels

(6) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Monitor Goods being Contaminated

(7) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Monitor Chinese Global Actions to Get Oil

(8) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Stabilize Pakistan with Nuclear Weapons

(9) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Prepare for Further Global Climate Change

(10) Awareness Strengthened of the Need to Avoid the Praising of Celebrities


Noteworthy Specific Incidents This Year:
(1) The Dow Jones Index has kept the level around 13,000 dollars.

(2) Europe and the U.S. have successfully avoided terror attacks this year, too.

(3) Nuclear crises around Iran and North Korean have been eased.

(4) Russian President Vladimir Putin has successfully leveraged the energy boom.

(5) Persian Gulf oil producing countries are taking advantage of a boom.

(6) No large-scale armed conflicts have erupted in Palestine.

(7) Sudan in a state of an oil-driven civil war has attracted the world attention.

(8) Chinese economy is still growing, however, with severe environmental problems.

(9) A sign of dollar undervaluation has surfaced globally.

(10) France and South Korea have elected new pro-US presidents, respectively.
* * *

In Japan:
(1) Very-pro-US ruling parties are losing comfortable majority in the national assembly.

(2) However, new Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, regarded as being comparatively soft to China, was inaugurated.

(3) The law to allow the supply of fuels to US and Pakistan naval vessels in the Indian Ocean was expired.

(4) Unfaithful performance of duties by bureaucrats in the Central Government was exposed and uncovered in a large scale.

(5) Gun-related crimes and accidents have taken attention of citizens.

(6) The more and more focus is on non permanent employees.

(7) Japan's total trade with China is expected to surpass that with the U.S. this year.

(8) Japan has successfully launched the first full-scale exploration vehicle to the moon since the US Apollo Project.

(9) Enforcement has been strengthened on fake or spurious goods, especially foods.

(10) Financial conditions in many local governments and municipal corporations have been aggravated, though national economic climate is still regarded in the upper trend in the long term.
* * *

As for me:
(a) Faith in God and Jesus Christ has been further strengthened with great or humane, or otherwise warning, miracles here and there.

(b) I have a feeling that something has arrived at a turning point or a crossroad so as to advance into a new direction with victories, no matter how humble they are, of the Army of Heaven here and there.




(The next Monday, December 24, is a national holiday in Japan, since the Emperor's Birth Day corresponds to Sunday this year.

I will be busy throughout this season despite worldly calendar heralding the year-end and New Year holidays coming soon in Japan.

Nonetheless, I hope that you will be able to do "neat work" for neighbors and God, since 2008 is so near.

[Even if it is the Christmas Eve, I can recall a certain song related to a night train:
http://ongakukan.music.coocan.jp/musicstudio/5-naha/mhanayome.html ])



"...Jesus said to him, "Follow me." Levi got up and followed him..."

(Jesus sagte zu ihm: 'Geh mit mir!' Und Levi stand auf und folgte ihm.)



　　

40 Days for Jesus, 40 Years for Moses, and 400 Years for Japan

(a Sunday painter in black sitting and facing Tokyo Station)(the stone fence of a water moat of Imperial Palace Plaza)



40 Days for Jesus, 40 Years for Moses, and 400 Years for Japan
(40 jours pour Jésus, 40 ans pour Moïse, et 400 ans pour le Japon)


SECTION 1: 40 Days for Jesus (40 jours pour Jésus)

According to the King James Version of the Gospel:
Mark 1:13 And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

This is a holy proof that Jesus was a human being fully and completely.

Accordingly, He had to face attacks by the Satan and devils who, however, should have been destroyed the moment they would have tried to take on God or His Angels.

Significantly, He had to face threats from wild beasts of any kinds that should have been destroyed the moment they would have tried to take on God or His Angels.

More importantly, I wonder in what situations the God needs His Angels to serve Him alone, since He is omnipotent and perfectly perfect.

But, Jesus, though the all-time best man in the human history He is, had to suffer as the poor or the weak does under the attacks and threats from the Satan, devils, and wild beasts.

Jesus, as the all-time best man in the human history, could put an end to this difficult process in 40 days and nights, which are of course very short compared with any other man's case if so comparable, leaving behind a heap of gold coins, jewels, and emissaries, beauties and assassins sent by rich and ambitious aristocrats of Rome, Athens, and Alexandria which were then all disappearing in the wilderness as if they had been simply mirages.



SECTION 2: 40 Years for Moses (40 ans pour Moïse)

According to the King James Version of the Old Testament:
Exo 16:35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

Abraham came out of the Sumerian world in Mesopotamia. But being descendants of the Sumerians who had built the first urban civilization was not enough.

Their descendants had to be baptized by the ancient Egypt Civilization.

Yet, they had to leave Egypt after having absorbed and digested the essence of the Civilization, so that they could return to and continue the living as descendants of Abraham at the advanced stage.

But it took 40 years even for Moses to purify himself again as an Israelite, though with full experiences and lessons in Egypt inside, after the Exodus.

And, the purification process needed 40 year wondering and eating specific foods in the desert around the Sinai Peninsula.

When Moses faced the end of his life, his families and members of the tribe were no longer simple descendants of the Sumerians but they advanced into the so called ancient Israelites of old Judaism.

Their state continued till they were forced to leave Jerusalem and Palestine by the Roman Forces, though the Israelites then had been fully influenced by the emergence of Jesus Christ in whatever covert way or as a reaction to direct followers of the teaching of Jesus Christ.

When they left Jerusalem and Palestine 40 years after the death of Jesus Christ, both the explicit followers of Jesus and the explicit non-followers were not simple ancient Israelites of old Judaism any more.



SECTION 3: 400 Years for Japan (400 ans pour le Japon)

There are some Christians among lawmakers of the Diet (Japan's parliament) just like among other notable people in the society.
( http://q.hatena.ne.jp/1138821235 )

Of course, some Japanese national lawmakers have a strong tie with certain Buddhist bodies of whatever sort. Yet, there seem to be some non-nonsense lawmakers holding a private academic seminar to study works of Buddhists, whether they belong to LDP (a capitalistic party) or JCP (a communist party).

Basically, as Shinto is a way of worshipping ancestors of the Japanese people, most of lawmakers like to visit Shinto shrines on any occasions regardless of their explicit association with any religion.

Though it is yet to see a (explicit) Muslim lawmaker in Japan, freedom of religion really flourishes in this society as you can see Christmas-tree decorations and illuminations everywhere in Tokyo and the rest of Japan nowadays.

But it is neither in 1945 when the US Military occupied Japan after WWII nor in 1868 when Japan started westernization after the collapse of the last samurai regime, but it is around 1600 that Japan faced serious influence of Christianity for the first time in its history.

So, please refer to "Samurai Mission to Pope in 1615" I wrote in EEE Reporter on February 10, 2007.

If the Tokugawa samurai regime had not sternly forbidden Christianity by force, Japan would have been the largest Christian country since 1600 to today in Asia.

And, taking into consideration the people's unusual fever of Christianity in those days and the nature of the Japanese race, Japan should have become a Christian autocratic country suppressing all other religions, and especially Buddhism.

But, to avoid such a biased attitude in accepting European Christianity and fulfill the need of further enriching and consolidating the unique Japanese culture so as to later cope with the European Civilization, the influx of the religion from Europe must have been stopped for a while, say, 270 years until the Meiji Restoration.

And, now 400 years after the Tokugawa's severe banning of Christianity, Japan is in the position to enjoy any religion without being influenced negatively or damaged at the core of its unique civilization, culture, and spiritualism.

Indeed, it takes 400 years for Japan to be prepared to lead the world with full of Israelites, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Marxists, Taoists, and so on.

Truly, it is 400 years since "Ieyasu" of the Tokugawa clan started to build the castle in Edo (Tokyo), the territory he was foisted on by "Hideyoshi" of the Toyotomi Family who had first united whole Japan relying on harquebuses and gold by putting an end to the 100-year-lasting Age of Civil Wars in Japan which had been mainly fought to take control of Kyoto, the Imperial capital of Japan since 794, some 500 km west of Edo (Tokyo).



SECTION 4: 4000 Years for Poor Americans (4000 ans pour les pauvres Américains)

It is now 4000 years since Abraham, his father, and his tribe left Ur, an ancient great Sumerian city of Mesopotamia.

We must be fully prepared to find the answer why the God or Yahweh had chosen Abraham and his family 4000 years ago as a starting point of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

It is because Mesopotamia and Palestine are today still suffering the painful and sorrowful ravages of wars while they are remarkably situated in the center of the world map.

Politicians, priests, pundits, and celebrities whose minds are full of thoughts about money, drinking parties, other luxuries, and plots never look back at history.

That is why poor Americans should solely rely on God and Jesus Christ, since they can refer to examples of 40 days, 40 years, 400 years, and 4000 years of divine providence, now so clearly.

Asians and Muslims are really wondering if poor Americans are completely compatible with American politicians, priests, pundits, and celebrities getting richer and richer as the war goes on.



(Indeed, history is in a sense like a roller coaster.

Potential energy given at the start is crucial; each apex on the winding course also adds another potential and spur; but it has neither brakes nor accelerators.

Truly, history is running just on a roller-coaster course the God designed and set.

All we can do may be simply perform diligent maintenance and inspection of parts and components of the vehicle.

Categorically, any accident of a roller coaster should be noted, even if you love more white-knuckle performance such as fancy, bungee, kamikaze jumping from the Eiffel Tower, the Tokyo Tower, or the Empire State Building, since they all look like a Xmas tree.)



"...Jesus said, 'Young man! Get up, I tell you!'..."

(Jesus sagte zu dem Toten: "Ich befehle dir: Steh auf!")