"into the country of the Gadarenes" - A Stupid History of the Mankind

Tokyo Tower (333 m) built in 1958

A Stupid History of the Mankind

It may be no surprise that the genetic similarity between a human and a chimpanzee is 96%, since humans and chimpanzees were separated 7 million years ago.  But it must be a surprise that the genetic similarity between a human and a banana is 60%.

It is said that the first living thing emerged in the earth 3.8 billion years ago.   And the first plant appeared 3.4 billion years ago; then the first animal appeared a billion years ago when DNAs evolved in an explosive manner.

Therefore, ancestors of every animal of today lived as plants for more than 2 billion years.  So, it is no wonder that the genetic similarity between a human and a banana is 60%.

However, a man is an animal that has a mind that can imagine, think of, and revere the God.  Or conversely, if we don't imagine, think of, and revere the God, we may recede to a state of chimpanzees or even bananas.

Nonetheless, if the God gets angry at men as they sell their souls to Satan, He would make men recede to a state of very early living things such as bacteria.  Then, the Angel of Death sent by the God may use viruses to destroy the human beings.  Accordingly, the corona-viruses are now attacking human beings.

If the mankind had developed and established civilization along with the teaching of the God, it should have already developed a means to protect itself from viruses.  Conversely, that fact that viruses are still a threat to the mankind means that it has not yet followed the teaching of the God.

But, what a stupid history the mankind has lived, if it is exterminated by viruses in the 21st century as Isaac Newton suggested!  From Abraham to Christ Jesus was 2000 years, and from Christ Jesus to us of today is 2000 years.  We are living in a decisive era.  The God might abandon the mankind at last.  For this purpose, the God will surely send the Angel of Death with viruses or something like them to the human world.  However, the God is benevolent one, and He must first give a warning to the mankind, which may be this corona pandemic.

The God would say, "The mankind originally born in this earth from a kind of bacteria should retrograde to a kind of bacteria."  Then, the Angel of Death would release more fatal viruses.  And, only Satan would be left on the earth.  Evil men would be all condemned to the hell while righteous men would be allowed to enter Heaven.

But, what a stupid history the mankind has lived as they killed the Son of God and, instead, were given a chance for repentance for 2000 years, but have finally failed to follow the teaching of the God!  Only Satan would be sorry as it cannot occupy men any more.

In next decades, we will see if it will come true or not.


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Mark 5 King James Version (KJV)
5 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

"And upon this came his disciples" - Fatal Genes or DNAs from Viruses

Tokyo Skytree Tower (634 meters)

Fatal Genes or DNAs from Viruses

It is said that the Neanderthal man lived in the period between 400,000 years ago and 40,000 years ago.  However, DNAs of every non-African person of today include about 2% of DNAs from the Neanderthal man.

And it is also widely believed that every person of today carries special traits in its mitochondria in cells that were transferred from a woman called Mitochondrial Eve who lived 160,000 years ago in Africa.

Furthermore, some Japanese scientists believe that the mankind started to include, in their genes, some genes originated in viruses about 40 million years ago or earlier.

So, we cannot tell that the mankind of today are members of a species who only and purely inherited genes and DNAs from its own direct ancestors since the birth of living things on the earth 3.8 billion years ago.  In other words, we don't know where genes and DNAs we have came from or were originally generated.

Genes and DNAs of each person of today include those that were originated in one specific woman of our species, another type of Homo genus, ancient viruses, etc. in past 3.8 billion years.

If Christ Jesus had His own children, some specific genes and DNAs originated in Christ Jesus or His children might have been transferred to some of us.

In future, some viruses in the nature might succeed to transfer some of their genes into human genes.  Indeed, it is afraid that some countries are making study to cause such transfer or change genes of some viruses and make biological weapons.

Viruses should be regarded as another type of living things, although their basic structure is different from that of other living things including procaryotic organisms and eukaryotic organisms such as the mankind.  Viruses came to exist about three billion years ago.  And, it is believed that viruses played an important role in the emergence of the mammal 200 million years ago and the establishment of the primates 50 million years ago.

So, if the God decided to destroy the mankind, it is natural to think that the God would use viruses to infuse some fatal genes or DNAs into those of the mankind.  In this context, this corona-virus pandemic is thought to be a warning to the mankind.  If the mankind continues to disregard the teachings of Christ Jesus and the words of the God, the God might send to the human world the Angel of Death who should use viruses as its weapons.

However, according to the history, even the Black Death, a pandemic that killed at least one third of Europeans in the 14th century, did not exterminate the mankind.  The God may allow us to further survive into the 22nd, 220th, and 2,200th century or more.

Nonetheless, Isaac Newton got a conclusion after his long-term study of the Bible that it would be no wonder if the end of the world should come at any time after 2060.

We had better prepare for the next pandemic expected to come 10 or 20 years later in this century (even if this corona pandemic is ended in this summer without the second wave).


Each chromosome is made up of tightly coiled strands of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Genes are segments of DNA that determine specific traits, such as eye or hair color. You have more than 20,000 genes. You have two copies of each gene — one inherited from each of your parents.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/genetic-testing/multimedia/genetic-disorders/sls-20076216


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John 4 King James Version (KJV)
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

"they straightway left their nets" - A Warning to Future Tragedies with this Less Harmful Pandemic

The Tokyo Skytree Tower (634 m), and Mt. Akagi, Mt. Tanzawa, and Mt. Tsukuba (877 m) from the Center of the Kanto Plain, Japan

A Warning to Future Tragedies with this Less Harmful Pandemic  

An unusually deadly influenza pandemic, called the Spanish flu, set off in 1918, resulting in 500 million infected people and  17 million to 50 million deaths.

It was at the end of WWI.  It was before the Great Depression that started in 1929.  And it was also before WWII that started in 1939 where 50 million to 80 million people were dead, including civilians and military personnel.

It spread in three waves between 1918 and 1919.

Three pandemic waves: weekly combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, United Kingdom, 1918–1919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#History

Many faithful people at the time must have wondered why this pandemic was generated around 1918.  And, as time went by with the Great Depression and WWII, they might think that the the Spanish flu was an ill omen for the Great Depression and WWII.

Or, the truth might be that the God tried to punish the mankind for their accumulated sins and evil deeds before occurrence of other tragedies by allowing for this pandemic as a warning.  But, Satan misguided the mankind to the further tragic events of the Great Depression and WWII.

So, this 2020 corona-virus pandemic may be regraded as another warning by the God.  If the mankind as a whole still continue to follow Satan loving money more than words of the God, the decisive tragedy or punishment by the God should come in the near future.

The measure may be global GDP.

    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05707-7_4

If this graph shows growth of men's faith in God, the God should have protected the mankind from any tragedies and pandemics.  But as this graph shows the trend in global GDP, it mostly means the trend of men's subservience to Satan, since GDP is a measure of material wealth produced and consumed by men following temptation of Satan.

By watching this trend, we should think that it is natural that the God gave the warning with the Spanish flu in the early 20th century.  And as the trend has not stopped over the 21st century, it must be also natural that the God gives another warning in the early 21st century.  And, this corona-virus pandemic set off.

The solution to prevent this pandemic must be, in this context, to further strengthen our faith in God.

Otherwise, the warning will come true like in the case of the Spanish flu.  Maybe another Great Depression and WWIII, involving especially China, must occur in the 21st century.  In this case, the total material civilization of the mankind will be threatened. And, there will be nobody who writes a history book of the human beings in the 22nd century, since the civilization should collapse in the 21st century.

It is dangerous for the mankind with insufficient faith in the God and insufficient spiritual capacity to handle this huge GDP that includes great capacity of production of weapons, including nuclear, chemical, and biological ones.

It is natural that the God gives a warning even in the form of this pandemic that gives less harm and damage than anticipated great future tragedies.

(In this context, we had better watch out in 2039 and 2049 like in the case of  the Spanish flu.)   

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Matthew 4
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.
19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.
20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.
22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

"thou art a prophet" - Viruses Cannot Kill Human Spirits

Tokyo

Viruses Cannot Kill Human Spirits

It was widely believed that there are 60 trillion cells in a human body, but more specifically, it is estimated that there are 37.2 trillion cells in a human body.　And each undergoes cell division about 50 times.  Further, every cell has the same DNA and genes.

So, two questions arise: (1) Why a man dies before all these trillions of cells die and (2) what gene or DNA generates a human mind?

Life is not a simple mass of cells, and the mind is not a simple phenomenon caused by genes or DNA.  Life and the mind are at higher levels than cells and genes.

If a man is shot at his heart, cells of the heart are broken by the bullet but other cells are still alive; yet the man dies and, accordingly, other cells also die.  His life is at a higher level than cells, relying on functions of total physical systems in the body.

We don't live as a cell lives, and we don't think as genes order.  We live and think according to the spirit that comes from the spiritual world to this material world.  In other words, it is useless to find the God in the material world.

However, it is interesting that a great number of cells constitute specific structure, organization, and systems to work and function in harmony with one another.  And, these structure, organization, and systems generate their own effective domains.  There, a phenomenon called life is generated, and work of the mind is produced.  They are based on cells, but they have features not found in cells because of difference of domains.  And into these domains, power and an action come from the spiritual world.  Then, life and mind work are generated.

Although it is still a mystery why the God uses this material world, including cells, to generate human beings, all we have to do is to understand the word of Christ Jesus that a man does not live only by bread but also by words of the God.

Viruses and other disease germs can attack and kill cells but cannot attack and kill human spirits.  But, the God can send the Angel of Death to this world to destroy followers of Satan.

And what if all the mankind become followers of Satan?

Anyway, Satan targets human beings but not human cells.    　


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John 4 King James Version (KJV)
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me" - Decisive Catastrophe may Come Decades Later

Government Office District, Tokyo

Decisive Catastrophe may Come Decades Later

It is strange that there are no sincere arguments on the anger of the God, the end of the world, and the Second Coming of Christ Jesus, while the world is suffering the pandemic that has never seen in decades.

However, American politicians continue to say, "God bless you"; the Pope is still enjoying high reputation; and nobody proclaims that the God is dead or there is no God from the beginning.

So, it must be meaningful to claim that this corona-virus pandemic is manifestation of God's anger at men to remind people of the truth that the mankind lives under the rule of the God, although it seems that people have decided to live neglecting the God and pursuing money, worldly success, and material wealth.

Indeed, it must be meaningful, too, to claim that the God, once or 66 million years ago, used a huge meteor by allowing it to come into collision with the earth to exterminate dinosaurs flourishing on the earth, so as to help evolution and development of human species.

We may say that the God was angry at dinosaurs that evolved and developed to a different direction and in a different manner than those expected by the God.  The God might have expected that a kind of dinosaur-men emerged from dinosaurs, but the dinosaur species took a wrong way in its evolution and started to suppress the mammals.  So, the God must have changed His mind to exterminate dinosaurs and give chance to the mammals to generate mammal-men 66 million years ago when the Himalaya Mountains did not yet exist.

So, this time, if the mammal-men that are we, the human species, have taken a wrong direction in its development and started to undervalue the God, it is natural that the God gets angry and starts to exterminate the human species by use of, say, tiny viruses instead of a huge space rock.   

But, it looks as if people had lost a capacity of judgment on their deeds and thoughts.  People look as if they do not know what they are doing, while performing unforgivable blasphemy.  Their religions have become something meaningless or means just to make money or enjoy their selfish dreams while highly contaminated by money economy promoted by Satan.

So, the God might decide to wipe out the human species and replace them with another higher form of life.  And, it might be called the end of the world in the Bible.

Indeed, dinosaurs had existed for about 160 million years from 230 million years ago to 66 million years ago.  And ancestors of the human species separated from chimpanzee 7 million years ago, and the human species were established about 2.5 million years ago.

Although their history is short in comparison with that of dinosaurs, there is no denying that the God might judge that there is no hope that the human species break off the relationship with Satan and completely follow the God.  Then, the God might send the Angel of Death to the earth again like 66 million years ago.

In this context, this pandemic might be a prelude to real catastrophe to the world.  However, the decisive catastrophe may come decades later or about 150 million years later like in the case of dinosaurs. 


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Luke 4 King James Version (KJV)
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

"manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it" - Turn to the God by 2040 or 2060

A Botanical Garden, Tokyo

Turn to the God by 2040 or 2060

In 1973, an MIT computer, dubbed World One, predicted that the world would end by 2040.  And, "2020 is the first milestone envisioned by World One. That's when the quality of life is supposed to drop dramatically" (https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/in-1973-an-mit-computer-predicted-the-end-of-civilization-so-far-its-on-target).

Although it seems that World One did not foresee the rise of China in the early 21st century and the pandemic started in China, its prediction coincides with Newton's famous prediction about the end of the world as starting in 2060.

Apart from World One and Newton, based on the Bible and history books, you may well think that something grave and great should occur in the early 21st century, while nothing occurred at the end of the 20th century, since 2000 years have passed since the crucifixion of Christ Jesus that had occurred 2000 years after the emergence of Abraham.

For example, the Second Temple in Jerusalem was built in 516 BCE, existed there during the era of Christ Jesus and His direct mission to the Jewish people, and then collapsed in the Jewsih-Roman War in 70 CE.  And it was 2000 years from the Great Pyramid in Giza to the Second Temple in Jerusalem.  Indeed, 2000 years are a period of mystery and fate.

And, the basic idea about the end of the world is this:
The mankind develop civilization, meaning science, technology, and social systems, to be materially rich, but at the same time, they get corrupted and demeaned, which Satan wishes.  But there is no reason for the God to accept such mankind and their civilization.  Therefore, if the mankind and their civilization derogate beyond a certain threshold, the God would surely interfere with the human history to send the Angel of Death to the human world and put an end to their history, so that Stan would fail in completely controlling the mankind.  So, it is no wonder that the current corona-virus pandemic has occurred as the Angel of Death has stopped other Angels from stopping the pandemic.         

But, it seems that this pandemic is not decisive one.  It is a kind of a preliminary drill, according to my reference to the Bible.

Yet, can the mankind repent enough and change their minds and attitudes drastically to cut their connection with Satan and turn to the God by 2040 or 2060?

To defeat Satan must be more important for the God than to make the mankind stay alive, since believers would be allowed to enter Heaven after their death.

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Acts 4 King James Version (KJV)

15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.

17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

"spoken by Esaias the prophet" - Ability of Mind to Strengthen Immunity against the Corona-Virus

Tokyo

Ability of Mind to Strengthen Immunity against the Corona-Virus

Christ Jesus did not have knowledge, skills, and devices modern doctors have.  But He healed and cured many sick people only by His spiritual power.

Today, some scientists believe that work of a human mind can turn ON or OFF genes in his or her body.  Most of illness are caused by some genes that happened to be wrongly turned on or off.  But, it seems that the work of the mind of Christ Jesus could even turn on or off genes of others.  Or, sick people who felt love in Christ Jesus must have unconsciously invoked special work of their minds to turn on or off of their genes that had been wrongly turned off or on.

In this context, the object of medical science should be discovering specific ways of using mind to turn on or off specific genes rather than creating drugs.

When this object is fulfilled, men will be able to turn on or off specific genes by work of their minds to defeat disease germs.   

For example, sportsmen know that they have to train hard and keep training to improve their performance.  Meanwhile, their minds must start to automatically work to turn on or off genes necessary for improving his performance.  What's more, every sportsman knows importance of image training.  Through the process of image training, the sportsman should unconsciously invoke the ability of his mind to turn on or off necessary genes for his performance.

So, the corona-viruses must be suppressed if we find the way to invoke specific work of our minds for turning on or off genes that can strengthen immunity against the corona-virus in our bodies. 

Anyway, Christ Jesus can be seen as a master in using this ability of our minds to turn on/off genes.

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Matthew 4
13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:
14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

"Art thou greater than our father Jacob" - The 1727 Miracle to Save European Christians

On Tokyo Bay, Tokyo

The 1727 Miracle to Save European Christians

In 541 the first plague epidemic occurred in the Eastern Roman Empire.  This black plagues spread as far as England and France for 60 years, killing hundreds of thousands of Europeans.  In the 11th century, when the first Crusades returned to Europe from Palestine, the black plagues carried black rats was brought into Europe.

And then, in 1334, an epidemic set off in Hangzhou, China, and consequently the black plagues carried by black rats were introduced in Italy through Central Asia in October 1347.  By 1348, the black plagues invaded Europe north of the Alps.

As a result, 20 to 30 million Europeans, meaning one third or a half of Europeans at the time, died of the plague.  This plague gave various significant influences on Europe.  Especially, most of French-speaking educators were exterminated in England, although since the Norman Conquest in 1066 education in England had been conduced in French by these French-speaking educators, so that education in England was started to be conducted in English after the plagues.  Incidentally, quarantine was started in Venice in 1377.

In 1727, a large group of brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) got across the Volga river of Russia from east to west, spreading in Europe and driving out black rats from Europe.  Since then, no black plague has set off in large magnitude in Europe.

Interestingly, it was around 17th to 18th century that brown rats invaded Japan.  But, it was 1899 that black plague was first found in Japan as it came from China.  However, Japanese deaths from the black plague was about 2,500 in following decades due to work by Shibasaburo Kitazato, who discoverd bacillus pestis, the disease germ of black plague, in 1894, and effective measures taken by then Imperial Government of Japan under guidance by Kitazato. 

More specifically, Alexandre EJ Yersin, a French medical doctor, also separately found bacillus pestis at the same time as Kitazoto did.  So, bacillus pestis has been called Yersinia pestis up to today. (When Imperial Japan was isolated from the world in WWII, the academic name Yersinia pestis was adopted internationally.)

The point at issue is that 70% or more of human infectious diseases were originated in animals.  Although due to advancement of civil engineering and construction to shut out rats, public health systems, centralization of authority, etc., black plague has been eradicated, as civilization has invaded the nature all the more, the risk of encountering animals having new disease gems gets higher.

For example, the current corona virus pandemic was triggered in Wuhan, China, a big industrial city today but just an old city before the start of industrialization and introduction of market economy in China in 1980s.

As we cannot know what animals are in what conditions in China and other parts of the world with what viruses in a detailed manner, we cannot tell what fatal pandemic will start in future in such a region. 

Finally, all we should do is to pray to the God, so that He would work such a miracle as that in 1727 to save European Christians.    

http://www.eiken.co.jp/modern_media/backnumber/pdf/MM1002_03.pdf#search='%E4%B8%AD%E4%B8%96+%E9%BB%92%E6%AD%BB%E7%97%85'

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John 4
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

"behold, angels came and ministered unto him" - Satan or the Angel of Death

Imperial Palace Plaza, Tokyo

Satan or the Angel of Death

According to classification by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), there are about 30,000 types of viruses.

There are about 650 types of viruses that infect the mammals and birds.  The National Institutes of Health reported, 20 years ago, that an average American was thought to be infected with a virus 200 times in his or her life.  In history, the mankind have suffered various virus infectious diseases, among which the most notable ones are small pox and rabies.  Small pox is believed to have first started to spread when agriculture was started in Mesopotamia abut 9,000 years ago.

It was in 1935 that a virus was first crystallized and visualized through an electronic microscope by Wendell Meredith Stanley, an American virologist.  At the time viruses were thought to be living things, it was a big surprise that viruses could be crystallized.  Indeed, some people today still think that viruses are non-living material.

For example, computer viruses are codes or a kind of computer programs.  But as they infect other codes to function, they don't work without other codes.  Likewise, viruses in the nature need other living things to reproduce themselves.

Because human beings have become so bad and evil as to create computer viruses in large quantity, it is no wonder that the Angel of Death would use biological viruses, which have been existent since the beginning of the human culture, to exterminate the mankind, if the God ordered the Angel to do so.   

Satan must want the mankind to further survive and prosper doing every bad thing as servants of Satan.  So, Satan should not exterminate the mankind at this point of history.  But the God, observing every bad thing made by men, might really want to put an end to the history of the mankind at this point by using the Angel of Death.

However, the benevolent God would give full warning to the mankind.  And, this corona-virus pandemic must be such warning.  If we repent enough to appease the wrath of the God, the world will be restored to the normal state before long. 

Anyway, if most of people have become servants of Satan, selling their souls to it to become rich and continuing to love money and wealth, there must be no reason for the God to protect the mankind from, say, viruses.

So, I have to refer to the Bible, as a member of the mortal mankind, to be guided by holy words only to find: "This, then, is my condition: on my own I can serve God's law only with my mind, while my human nature serves the law of sin."

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Matthew 4
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
11 Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

"If thou be the Son of God" - The Next Decisive Pandemic

Tokyo

The Next Decisive Pandemic

In this crisis of the corona-virus pandemic, I referred to the Bible to not only strengthen my physical immune system but also get any advice in facing the crisis.

The words I got were "dead in sin but alive in Christ."

Based on these words, it is judged that Christ Jesus views this pandemic as manifestation of our sin but also as a chance where we can strengthen our faith and be saved.  Or it is judged that the God allowed this pandemic to be generated due to sin of the mankind.

Indeed, most of people have actually sold their souls to Satan to earn money, get rich, and make our material dreams come true while the Bible tells virtually that money is a tool of Satan.  Especially, Christ Jesus said to choose money or the God.  But most of people have ignored this warning and chose money.  The human world is based on these godless attitudes of people.  The global economy is run on these godless attitudes of people.  So, it is natural that the God allowed this pandemic to happen.

The human society in this world must be rebuilt anew based on faith in the God.  The global economy must be redesigned and reorganized based on faith in the God, avoiding Satan's trap with money.  If the mankind changes their attitudes and ways of living to show more respect to the God, the benevolent God will surely help them and give life.

The mankind contaminated and corrupted by material desire and sin might be doomed to go extinct at any point in history.  And, the year 2020 under the pandemic might be a start of this process toward total extinction.

For example, the World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1918, while the 1918 flu pandemic started to spread in late 1918.  If the world had repent and turned to the God due to its tragic consequences, the World War II should have been prevented.

Likewise, although this pandemic is now inflicting great damage on the world, if the mankind repent and turn to the God, the next decisive pandemic, expected to come in the middle of this century, will be prevented.

In Japan, a great earthquake occurred around Kobe City, near the second largest metropolitan area in Japan Osaka, claiming 6,000 deaths in 1995.  But, probably because the Japanese people did not repent and turn to the God sufficiently, another great earthquake and tsunami occurred in the northeast area from Tokyo, the capital and the largest metropolitan area in Japan, in 2011, having claimed about 18,000 lives.  This 2011 disaster was accompanied by a nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.  Especially this nuclear accident seems to be a proof or a symbol of Japanese people's disobedience to the God.

And it is symbolic that this pandemic set off in China where Christian churches are under control of the anti-Christian Chinese Communist Party. 

In this context, it is expected that the second and decisive pandemic in the 21st century will also erupt in China that will be continuing to take anti-Christian policy and attitudes, unless the mankind, including Chinese, fully repent and turn to the God.           

So, I think that this pandemic will be suppressed around July of this year.  But the mankind will be tested by the God as to whether they will choose life in union with Christ Jesus or they still continue to pursue money, wealth, and material dreams, selling their souls to Satan.  Depending on the result of the test, the mankind might start to go extinct.

For reference, ”In a manuscript from 1704, Newton describes his attempts to extract scientific information from the Bible and estimates that the world would end no earlier than 2060 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies#2060),” which means that Newton did not exclude the possibility that the world starts to go extinct in 2060, the middle of the 21st century.  

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Luke 4
8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

"some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred" - A Matter of Concern for True Believers

National Assembly Diet Building, Tokyo

A Matter of Concern for True Believers

I referred to the Bible to find any advice from the God as I saw the pandemic news on TV.

1 Corinthians 15 King James Version (KJV)

19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

So, we must not be troubled by this corona-virus pandemic, since we have the hope of resurrection in Heaven through Christ Jesus.

However, a few months ago, the Bible told me, when I was referring to it, that there would be a wonder in the sky and a miracle on the earth.  Then, the pandemic started to increase its influence, and snow fell in and around Tokyo leaving an inch-thickness of snow at the end of March as the first in 32 years.

Indeed, the last pandemic occurred between 1918 and 1920, leaving 20 to 45 million deaths including 450,000 deaths in Japan.  In comparison, the number of deaths in WWII was 60 to 80 million.

The number of the war dead in each of the past five centuries was as follows:
The 16th century: 1.6 million
The 17th century: 6.1 million
The 18th century: 7 million
The 19th century: 19.4 million
The 20th century: 107.8 million

Especially in the 20th century, the total of the war dead and the pandemic's casualties was about 150 million.  And it is still unknown how many people will die, in the 21st century, from wars, natural disasters, pandemics, etc. unfortunately without peace.

However, if the mankind is doomed to go extinct in the 21st century, the number of deaths will be beyond comparison.

The point at issue is who is responsible for these deaths.  Is it Satan or the God that should be to blame for these deaths.  Satan may want to have as many men as possible get killed in tragedy without peace.  But the God may send the Angel of Death to unfaithful, evil men who have sold their souls to Satan to be rich or have their dreams come true.

When completely attacked by Satan and at the same time abandoned by the God, the mankind would surely go extinct.  In this case, the whole 7 billion people might get killed in wars or due to pandemics, natural disasters, etc.

But what is important for any individual is his or her own death apart from the fate of the mankind.  It is because his or her life should start when he or she is allowed to enter Heaven.  Compared with the life in Heaven, a life in this world is nothing.  Put extremely, it is not a matter of concern for true believers in Christ Jesus whether he or she dies in any manner or the whole mankind go extinct at any time.

Nonetheless, it is a supreme concern for believers to see victory of the God over Satan who should be behind men's tragedies caused by any war, natural disaster, pandemic, etc.           

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Mark 4 King James Version (KJV)
3 Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:
4 And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"Being forty days tempted of the devil" - A Species Doomed to Go Extinct

Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo

A Species Doomed to Go Extinct

It is strange that the mankind does not yet pray to the God, asking rescue from this corona-virus pandemic.

From the beginning, there has been a big possibility that the mankind can be exterminated at any time by various causes in the history, including pandemics, collision with a huge meteor, a sudden drastic change in climates, huge geological disasters, etc.

The present mankind has survived almost 200,000 years.  Especially it is thought that ancestors of peoples living outside Africa today were in a few groups of the mankind in Africa just 50,000 to 80,000 years ago.  So, in rather a short period of time, the mankind has evolved and changed in wide diversity.  But, the earth has its own history of 4.6 billion years.  And, living things have their own history of 4 billion years.  There must be some threats that can exterminate the species of the mankind in the earth, which the mankind has not encountered. Indeed, living things on the earth have ever suffered major extinction in five times since visible living things that could leave their trails in the form of fossils appeared on the earth:

Marine extinction intensity during the Phanerozoic (the horizontal scale: in unit of million years):

The blue graph shows the apparent percentage (not the absolute number) of marine animal genera becoming extinct during any given time interval. It does not represent all marine species, just those that are readily fossilized. The labels of the traditional "Big Five" extinction events and the more recently recognised End-Capitanian extinction event are clickable hyperlinks; see Extinction

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

As the above figure shows, the K-Pg extinction, where dinosaurs went extinct, is the newest one among those five major extinction events in the period of 500 million years.  In average, once in 100 million years, one great extinction event occurred.

And as 65 million years have already passed, another great extinction event may happen on the earth at any time.  And, as the recent global warming indicates, it may be related to human activities.

Due to material civilization, some influence may be given to, say, bacteria and viruses.  Chemicals produced by the mankind may change DNA or genes of these bacteria and viruses to generate strong virulence for the mankind.  And the infected mankind may go extinct.

If not by viruses or bacteria, collision with a huge meteor, a sudden drastic change in climates, huge geological disasters, etc. could happen without being stopped by the mankind.  So, existence and development of the mankind is at the hand of the God.

It does not look like this corona-virus pandemic is going to exterminate the mankind.  However, if another pandemic may occur soon after it, the mankind may face a crisis of extermination.  And in the time span of around 40 million years, another major extinction event will surely happen in the earth, wiping out the mankind.

The mankind doomed to go extinct in 40 million years or so should always ask the God to protect it at any time from extinction.  This corona-virus pandemic is a good chance to think of the fate of the mankind as a species in the earth and confirm the need to ask help from the God.

But would the God rescue the mankind most of whom have sold their souls to Satan or are brainwashed by Satan?


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Lu:4:1: And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Lu:4:2: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Lu:4:3: And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Lu:4:4: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.