"and his disciples believed on him" - The God Knows What We Need

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The God Knows What We Need

According to a report in 2016 on states of belief in America, not all the Americans are brainwashed by Satan trying to make people love and revere money and material wealth:

Most Americans don’t buy the prosperity gospel—especially if they have money.
Two-thirds (63 percent) disagree with the idea that God will always reward true faith with material blessings. A quarter agree. Twelve percent are not sure.
Men (28 percent) are more likely to believe in the prosperity gospel than women (22 percent). Poor Americans—those with incomes under $25,000—are more likely (28 percent) to agree than those with incomes over $100,000 (20 percent).
Those with high school degrees or less (33 percent) are more likely to believe that God blesses the faithful with material blessings than those with graduate degrees (18 percent).

(https://lifewayresearch.com/2016/09/27/americans-love-god-and-the-bible-are-fuzzy-on-the-details/) 

From the beginning, the history tells that Christ Jesus did not walk around in the world to distribute money to people.  It is written in the Gospels that Christ Jesus denied temptation by a devil promising Him wealth and money.

Money and material wealth might make people materially happy, but they are useless for salvation of souls of people for which Christ Jesus came to this world.  Rather, to become materially happy by acquiring money and material wealth, people tend to accept any evil, wrong doing or crimes, denying the teachings of the God and Christ Jesus.

It is reasonable that many Americans who have obtained higher education and incomes have found that their achievements do not contribute to solving their internal problems and relieving them of internal problems.  But Americans without sufficient educational records and wealth might think that their problems would be solved only if they have enough education and wealth.

Wise and experienced men must find that money creates more problems that it solves problems at hand.  Thoughtful, sensible, and pious men must find that desire for material happiness, success and money is the source for evil, since men tend to justify their wrong doing with necessity for money.  People often think that they have to be happy so that they have to get money and thus they have to do any evil to get money, which rejoices Satan.

The core of the teaching of Christ Jesus is that rich men cannot enter into Heaven but poor men can.  It is the basic conditions before the issue whether a man has faith in the God or not.  Christ Jesus is unique in declaring that a man cannot love both the God and money at the same time.  Being rich means to accept every evil necessary for a man to get money and become rich, which is what Satan wants.

The Gospels should read as a report of the battle between the God or Christ Jesus and Satan.  Men must not pursue money with which for them to be rich.  Men must be satisfied only with what the God gives to them.

Matthew 6　
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 

To believe that the God knows what we need before we ask Him is the faith according to teaching by Christ Jesus.

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John 2  King James Version
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:

"And she brought forth her firstborn son" - What We Have to See through this Pandemic

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What We Have to See through this Pandemic

As people have come to rarely think of life after the death while the material civilization is developing, people come to be less afraid of the God and the hell.

More and more people have come not to believe in existence of Heaven and the hell taught by various religions.  Most of people do not believe existence of the God and Satan.  Nobody seems to think about the meaning of their own existence, this world, life after death, Heaven, the hell, Satan, the God, and thus God's teaching.

Science has not proved that there is life after death, the spiritual world, a soul above a mind, and the God and Satan.  So, people only think of worldly matters, turning their eyes away from the God, the source of existence of everything including this world, the spiritual world, etc.  At least, people think of money more than the God.     

People pray to the God, asking to make their dreams come true.  But in most cases, the God seems not to listen to them.  Therefore, they tend to think that there is no God or they have nothing to do with the God.  Indeed, science has not yet proved that there is the God.  But it cannot prove either that there is no God.  

In my view, it is more likely that science proves that we do not exist before it proves that the God exists.  In other words, science developed by unbelievers would gradually go out of rationality.  Science might finally prove that there is no truth in science.  Science might finally prove that there are no human minds that generated science itself.

But none denies that everybody dies someday.  Then, the body stops biologically functioning.  Nerve cells in the brain stop their work.  The phenomenon called a mind should disappear.  But, the content of a human mind should move to a soul above the mind, and the soul enters into the spiritual world where there is Heaven and the hell.  This must be a mechanism of life set by the God.   

From the beginning, without this universe, there cannot be human beings.  And according to science, the probability that this universe with so many scientific laws was generated accidentally by chance is almost zero.  Somebody must have planned the creation of such universe, the galaxies, the solar system, the earth, the nature in the earth, and emergence and evolution of living things, including the human kind.  So, it is natural that some people believe that the God created this universe and everything in it.

If it is the God who created this world, He must be displeased as human beings created by Him have come to stop thinking of the God with respect.  The angry God may decide to exterminate such human beings.  To believe that the God has power to exterminate human beings, even if He does not seem to listen to our wish, must be the core of any religions. 

This corona-pandemic must be a warning.  The God must find it offensive that more and more people have come to less and less think of the God.  Indeed, 2000 years have passed since Christ Jesus, and 4000 years have passed since Abraham.  Seeing these states of minds of human beings, there is no wonder that the God decided to show His displeasure to human beings at the start of this millennium or in the early 21st century.

In other word, what we have to see through this pandemic is the wrath of the God on godless human beings.    

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Luke 2  King James Version
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

"out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David" - Just a Warning, the Last Warning, and Finally the Fatal Era after 2060

 

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Just a Warning, the Last Warning, and Finally the Fatal Era after 2060

It is estimated that about 3.5 million people will globally die due to corona-viruses by May 2021.  

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-deaths-region?tab=chart&stackMode=absolute&time=2020-01-11..latest&region=World

The total deaths in WWI between July 1914 to November 1918 were about 8.5 million. The total deaths in WWII between September 1939 to September 1945 were about 9.1 million.

 Especially Americans killed in WWII were 290,000, while American deaths due to the corona-viruses are more than 450,000 as of February 3, 2021.  It is estimated that Americans twice their deaths in WWII will die due to corona-viruses until the summer of 2021.

On the other hand, the total deaths due to the Spanish Flu (1918-1919) are said to be about 40 million.  Therefore, even if vaccination is found to be effective, it is expected globally that deaths due to the corona-viruses (2020-2021) will be about 10 million, one-quarter of the deaths due to the Spanish Flu that caused more deaths than those in WWI or WWII.

However, if the mortality rate of a future virus pandemic becomes three times or more that in the current corona-pandemic, the deaths would be close to those in the Spanish Flu (40 million). 

What is worse, WHO has not yet clearly identified the source of the outbreak of the current corona-pandemic, although it started site investigation in China.  There is no assurance that no more virus pandemics will occur in this century.

There is a possibility that a virus pandemic with the mortality more than ten times that in the current pandemic is set off from China, etc. in this century.  Then, the global deaths will reach 100 million, and a billion people will have to suffer infection, leading to collapse of the human civilization.  Even in the U.S., millions of Americans should die due to such a pandemic with a half of Americans infected.

Furthermore, there is a possibility of outbreak of WWIII involving China, the U.S., etc. where biological weapons such as artificially intensified viruses would be used.  In this case, casualties will be globally increased to a billion or more, leading to extermination of the mankind.

To avoid such a tragedy, China as well as Russia should become a democratic nation to be fully transparent in terms of politics, business, and human activities.  If not, the God might use China as well as Russia to put the end of the human history in this century.

Indeed, if there emerge a billion of servants of Satan brainwashed by money, the God should surely forsake the mankind.  For example, Isaac Newton predicted based on his study of the Bible that the end of the world might start around 2060.  So, this corona-pandemic must be just a warning, and bore 20260, the last warning must be given to the mankind.  And, finally, the fatal era after 2060 will start.  However, before 2060, if the mankind stop loving money and following Satan, the God might change His mind and save the mankind.  In this case, Christ Jesus must appear again to save the world.  And the human history would continue for next 2000 years.  

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Luke 2　　King James Version
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

"again he entered into Capernaum after some days" - Annihilation due to Viruses or Further Survival?

Mt. Asama & Mt. Fuji around Tokyo

Annihilation due to Viruses or Further Survival?

Why did the corona-pandemic happen in 2020?

This pandemic also tells that a same kind of pandemics can happen in future.  In this sense, the world has been lucky not to have similar pandemics for about 100 years since the 1918 Spanish Flu.

However, we can see the effect of this corona-pandemic.  Trump lost the 2020 Presidential Election.  An alarm toward non-democratic China expanding economic and military power and generating corona-viruses has been strengthened.  The UK and the EU being busy to handle selfish Brexit were hit so hard by the corona-viruses.  Even the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed.  In other words, the world at the summit of its prosperity was severely attacked by the corona-viruses.  The modern human civilization has been suppressed by the corona-pandemic.          

Viruses influenced evolution of the human beings by adding some genes through introducing extra portions of DNA to human ones.  It is said that without interference of viruses, mammals and advanced primates were not created.  It is also said that about 8 percent of human DNA came from viruses through insertion of them into human genomes in the distant past.

Put simply, we own our existence to viruses.  But, viruses can destroy the human kind through the same function.  The God created the human kind with viruses but allowed viruses to keep the dangerous function for infection to destroy human calls.  The human beings might have lived, as happy-go-lucky guys, for hundreds of thousands of years while being surrounded by viruses.  If the God wants to punish the mankind, He must use viruses.  But the point at issue is what has made the God angry.

In terms of material civilization or economy, the global GDP has reached more than 90 trillion dollars around 2020.  But as there are about 7 billion population in the world, GDP per capita is about 13,000 dollars, which means that everyone can have a minimum of civilized life.  However, in the world, there are more than 700 million poor people (about 10% of the mankind) living with less than 2 dollars per day.

What's more, it is said that a million Uighur Muslims are put in a kind of concentration camps and forced-labor factories by the Chinese Government, while China is expanding economic and military power and the U.S. has been in political turmoil due to Trump's presidency.

This situation of the human world must have drawn anger from the God.  Most of people have been brainwashed by Satan and money, neglecting poor, unlucky, and unhappy people and turning blind eyes to the coming global crisis such as a possibility of WWIII involving the U.S. and China.  Therefore, it is natural that the God has given caution to the mankind with corona-viruses.           　 

This corona-pandemic will end sooner or later, and the world will be restored to its normal state within a few years.  But if the mankind continues to follow Satan, being tainted by greed, the God might not only punish the mankind but also annihilate them with more deadly viruses.

Indeed, as the God created the mankind with viruses used to modify man's DNA, He might annihilate them with fatal viruses that can destroy man's DNA.  In this case, Satan should be sorry to find that there are no men to brainwash.  Yet, if the mankind repent and start to hate Satan and money, the God might assure further survival of the mankind toward the future centuries or 2000 years.

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Mark 2  King James Version
2 And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.
2 And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.
3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
4 And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

"and anon they tell him of her" - The Pandemic due to Just 11 Righteous People in the World

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The Pandemic due to Just 11 Righteous People in the World 

There are important passages in Genesis 18 of the Bible: 

22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

26 And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

30 And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

33 And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

In this way, the God said to Abraham that he would not destroy the city Sodom only if He could find 10 righteous people there.

If the God had destroyed the city due to too many lack of righteous people, Jewish people, later Christians, later Muslims, and later people who were to be influenced by Abraham must not have existed.　The world of the mankind should not have survived and expanded to date.

But, can there be another Abraham of today who should ask the God not to destroy all the cities in the world if there were 50, 40, 30, 20 or at least 10 righteous people there?

But it seems that there are today 70 billion bad people who love money more than the God.  Would the God stop extinction of the whole mankind due to 10 righteous people?  

Anyway, it must be difficult for any man in this world to name to the God 10 righteous people around them who love the God more than money.  Or the reason why the God has sent the Angel of Death with corona-viruses to the human world must lie here.  There might be only just 11 righteous people in this world today.  The current corona-pandemic must be due to the state that there are only 11 righteous people in this world today.  In this case, we cannot lose any one righteous man any more.

And if there is none righteous in this world, the mankind should not understand why they are to go extinct if the God judges that it is the time for the mankind to go extinct.       

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Mark 1  King James Version
28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
29 And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
30 But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever, and anon they tell him of her.
31 And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.

"whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose" - Corona-Viruses like Seeds Sown by Satan or Christ Jesus

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Corona-Viruses like Seeds Sown by Satan or Christ Jesus

In the world where authority is based on brainwashing, people brainwashed naturally attack or deny those who are not brainwashed. 

This phenomenon has been often seen in the domain of religion, ideology, or traditional culture.  But the most significant one has been in this modern world brainwashed by Satan and money.

Even in the modern world brainwashed by Satan using money as a tool to brainwash people, those who do not obey and follow rules set by Satan are neglected, denied, treated badly, despised, attacked, or let down.  In other words, in this world brainwashed by Satan where the rich have power, the poor are naturally neglected, denied, treated badly, despised, attacked, or let down.  

Indeed, in old days like in the Roman Empire, those who followed the God and Christ Jesus were sometimes attacked simply because they were poor rather than because they loved the teachings of Christ Jesus and the God.

People brainwashed by Satan came to love money, and accordingly they came to despise the poor.  However, in most cases, any followers of Christ Jesus needed money to live in the world, so that they compromised in earning and spending money, and at no matter how small percentage in their minds they accepted the rule of money, which is ultimately the rule of Satan.

But those who were brainwashed by money or Satan at 90 percent in their minds would come to attack others who were brainwashed by Satan and money at less than 90 percent, as if they had been following the right rule and teaching.  Those who were brainwashed by Satan at 90 percent must have thought that others who were brainwashed by Satan in, say, only 10 percent were dangerous and thus started to expel them out of society.

Maybe in the spiritual world, spirits believing in the God at 90 percent of their souls might attack and expel others who only believe in the God at 10 percent of their souls.  Something similar is conducted in this world, though, in the opposite direction.

Those brainwashed 100 percent by Satan or money would passionately attack others who would accept Satan or money only at 1 percent in their minds.  For those brainwashed 100 percent by Satan or money, it is bad and evil not to fully follow teaching of Satan and the rule by money.  Those brainwashed 100 percent by Satan or money think that it is right to attack those who do not 100 percent obey Satan and power of money.

In reality, even today in this world, almost everybody thinks that it is right to earn money as much as possible and accept or resect every evil to get money.

From this context, the history of the mankind, since the emergence of Christ Jesus, should be to make the percentage of the brainwashing by Satan in people's minds small as much as possible.

If a man comes to hate money 100% in his mind, the society brainwashed by Satan and power of money would deny, attack or expel him out of it.  Indeed, hating money 100% means to hate Satan 100%.  Such society brainwashed by Satan would do it to such a good man as if they were doing a right thing and executing a sacred teaching, while they are just following Satan against the God.

Satan is behind money.  And money occupies a big percentage of a mind of each man.  The rule of money has become a kind of religion; but although if people love money, they usually don't explicitly deny or hate the God.  However, Satan must think that it is its victory only if people love money so much and simply forget the God.

This brainwashing by Satan has been prevailing in the world more than corona-viruses.  If we regard the corona-viruses as seeds sown by Satan, we may find how dangerous the teaching of Satan.  Indeed, faith in money has prevailed overwhelmingly in the world.  But, the teaching by Christ Jesus and the God can prevail like corona-viruses, too.                     

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John 1  King James Version

26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

"he tarried so long in the temple" - The True Meaning of Jesus' Teaching

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The True Meaning of Jesus' Teaching

It is said that Christ Jesus said that a man who was poor was blessed.  And people who heard this word became to believe in Him although they had no deep and wide knowledge about religion and philosophy.

But in these 2000 years, this teaching of Christ Jesus had been interpreted and discussed in various ways by those with deep and wide knowledge about religion and philosophy, resulting in denial or negligence of the true meaning of His teaching.

The reason is simple.  Scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. in these 2000 years have not thought that the poor were blessed as Christ Jesus had truly meant.  So, they sometimes said that Christ Jesus had not talked about a materially or worldly poor man but a man whose mind was humble and thus poor without worldly desire.  They sometimes said that a man could be rich because this teaching of Christ Jesus did not forbid a man to be materially or worldly rich.    

But would Christ Jesus give a teaching whose true meaning could be only understood by modern scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. to poor Jewish people living 2000 years ago without learned wisdom?

Christ Jesus simply said and meant that a poor man was blessed, since such a man would be accepted, consoled, and healed in Heaven.  Since a man's being poor proves that he has not sold his soul significantly to Satan or he has not committed a grave sin to be any rich.      

Scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. usually have materially rich or satisfactory live while there are poor men around them without knowledge, skills, physical or spiritual power, worldly wisdom, etc.  But those scholars, etc. usually would not sufficiently give money to those poor people.  Christ Jesus meant that such a way of living rich by those scholars, etc. should eventually lead them to the hell, and thus they were not blessed.

Money cannot be obtained by a man without his committing any sins.  Money is a tool with which Satan makes a man commit any sins.  Poor men are less under rule of Satan, therefore he has a bigger chance to be accepted in Heaven.

Any poor man without learned knowledge knows that he cannot be rich if he does not neglect other poor men.  In other words, everybody knows that he has to sell any part of his soul to Satan to become and stay rich, competing against others, defeating them, neglecting them, and abusing them in any way.  Therefore, a man who has not become and stayed rich through such a way of life can be more easily accepted in Heaven than rich men who have succeeded in this world by selling their souls to Satan.

So, Christ Jesus simply said that a rich man cannot easily enter Heaven, but a poor man can be more easily accepted in Heaven.  In this context, a poor man is blessed.

However, poverty generates crimes, and poverty produces criminals.  This worldly phenomenon seem to betray the teaching of Christ Jesus.  But if we see that it is rich men who first created poverty among those who were defeated in social and economic competition, we may understand that why Christ Jesus so severely condemned rich men who caused poor men to stumble.          

A poor man is a victim of a society or an economic system.  Such a man should be pardoned by the God more easily if he has committed any sins as a poor man, and thus be blessed.

Otherwise, scholars, professors, learned persons, priests, etc. are mad to think that they have to treat this teaching of Christ Jesus in a more difficult way so that ordinary or poor people cannot understand. 

Most of rich men are brainwashed by Satan with power of money, which must be the true meaning of Jesus' teaching that the poor were blessed.

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Luke 1  King James Version

20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
22 And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

"which shall be fulfilled in their season" - Appearance of a Great Saint in a Crisis such as this Pandemic

 

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Appearance of a Great Saint in a Crisis such as this Pandemic

It is said that a great saint appeared when the world was in a crisis.

Christ Jesus appeared 2000 years ago when the Jewish world faced a crisis of a possible war with the Roman Empire.  Moses appeared when Jewish people faced a crisis of extinction through slavery in Egypt.  Abraham appeared when the ancient kingdom of Ur was being destroyed in the Mesopotamia.   

Now, in the early 21st century after 2000 years of Christ Jesus, whose era had been 1300 years after Moses who had appeared 700 years after Abraham, the mankind and especially the U.S. are facing a crisis due to the corona-pandemic and the division within the nation and the society.

But can a great saint today appear in the world or the U.S.?

A crisis often causes madness or an abnormal psychological state in the society or the world.  This corona-pandemic, the political and social division in the U.S., and the dangerous rise of economic and military power of China have posed a great risk to the world and the U.S.

Usually such a situation leads to a competition or battles among mad parties rather than between a sound party and a mad party.  But,  a great saint such as Christ Jesus has finally fixed the situation.  Without such a great saint, the world or the society would start to get degenerated through such a crisis.

In this context, it can be said that if the U.S. society cannot produce such a great saint in this political confusion triggered by Trump, it might politically or socially undergo regression.  Or if the world cannot produce such a great saint in this international confusion triggered by China, it might enter into a more dangerous era as the world after WWI and the Spanish Flu had led to the rise of Nazis and the outbreak of WWII.

A crisis in civilization or the world must be triggered by battles among mad parties.  A crisis that might cause the end of the world should occur in such a situation.  China seems to become one of mad parties as it generated this pandemic, in addition to various reports of its negligence of human rights and Christian values.  But the U.S. might be also at the brink of political disruption, which would make it unable to effectively cope with the threat from China.

When darkness and desperation were so deep and strong, a great saint such as Christ Jesus appeared to save not only local or limited people but also eventually the human civilization and the world.

If Biden is not such a saint, we have to further wait and see the right time.  But, in my feeling, this 21st century is a decisive time in terms of avoiding the end of the world, which is predicted in the Bible.

If a great saint such as Christ Jesus appears in the world or the U.S. in the early 20th century, the mankind would be able to survive this century and subsequent centuries or next 2000 yeas.  But, in the worst case, WWIII would occur involving China, the U.S., etc.

Anyway, 2000 years have already passed since Christ Jesus.  Anything historically decisive can happen in the world.  We may be facing the decisive era like Jewish people after WWI and the Spanish Flu had faced the early 20th century or the era of Nazis and Hitler. 

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Luke 1  King James Version
19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.

"nor of the will of man, but of God" - Punish the World with Corona-Viruses for its Collective Responsibility

 

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Punish the World with Corona-Viruses for its Collective Responsibility

The corona-pandemic has taken on and killed about 2 million people in the world until now, but malnutrition kills more than 9 million children every year before their reaching 5 years old in some statistics.  According to a UN statistics, 820 million children in the world are in the state of starvation in 2018. 

Malnutrition can be identified as an underlying cause for shortened life. 70% of childhood deaths (age 0–4) are reportedly due to diarrheal illness, acute respiratory infection, malaria and immunizable disease. However 56% of these childhood deaths can be attributed to the effects of malnutrition as an underlying cause. The effects of malnutrition include increased susceptibility to infection, musculature wasting, skeletal deformities and neurologic development delays. According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is named as the biggest contributor to child mortality with 36 million deaths in 2005 related to malnutrition. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate)

This situation must displease God and make Him angry.  Malnutrition of children symbolizes corruption and debasement of the human civilization.

The responsibility of rich countries such as the US, EU members, Japan, China, etc. must be heavy.  Accordingly, the God must have decided to punish them with the corona-pandemic.  This is a religious view on the corona-pandemic.

Indeed, the richest country in the world, the US, is suffering the most damage with about 400,000 deaths.

Although the Spanish Flu of a century ago is said to have killed about 100 million people in the world, this corona-pandemic might not end till at least 9 million are killed, since more than 9 million children die every year for malnutrition. 

If you do not feel God's anger behind the corona-pandemic, you might not take serious this pandemic that has occurred in the middle of prosperity of the world with despotic China becoming a new global economic power in Asia following Japan, while China neglects human rights and democracy.  

But if Americans feel God's anger behind the corona-pandemic, they might think that the God caused this pandemic to put the end to Trump's presidency.  However, we should think that the cause of this pandemic does not lie only in Trump but also in this material human civilization represented by rich people like Trump.  

In other words, as people have sold their souls to Satan to earn money and get rich while neglecting starving children in poor countries, the God must have decided to punish the world for its collective responsibility for neglecting starving children.   

 

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John 1 King James Version
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

"into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" - Pious Weak Men vs. Worldly Strong Men

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Pious Weak Men vs. Worldly Strong Men

It is said that weakness of the God is stronger than human strength.

A faithful man would be lost in any worldly competition against worldly strong men, but eventually it would be revealed that the real winner is the faithful man.

Men with human strength, physical strength, intellectual strength, financial strength, etc. would surely win in this world.  But in the course of life along with the time and history, such a man would lose his advantage and his assets.  None can be a champion forever.  But, a faithful, honest, and righteous man would be appreciated eventually as time goes by and situations change.

It is because the God created this human world based on the principle of love.  And love will not allow a man to defeat others for any material benefits.  Therefore a man with faith and love cannot become a winner in any competition.

So, for a faithful man to be rich, he cannot be allowed to use his human strength, physical strength, intellectual strength, etc.  In this context, he has to be a weak man.  But eventually, he will become a winner as other men who have relied on their human strength would sooner or later lose their merits and advantage as time goes by.  Only a man who relies on God's love should survive over countless ordeals along with time.

So, followers of Christ Jesus must look weak in the worldly sense.  They have no physical strength, intellectual strength, financial advantage, and social merits but have only faith in Christ Jesus and the God.  

No excellent men even with various merits and strengths cannot completely cope with countless situations and changes of phenomena.  But faithful men can be helped by Christ Jesus who could handle every change of conditions in this world.

It is as if worldly strong men had the numbers above a million, a billion, or a trillion but faithful men have only index numbers such as 10, 100, or 1000.  But if Christ Jesus gave a base number, such as 10, for the index numbers those faithful men have, their numbers would be 10 to the Xth power, such as 10^10, 10^100, 10^1000, etc., which would easily surpass a million, a billion, or a trillion.

In this context, those who are weak following the God and Christ Jesus, with only the number of 10, 100, or 1000, are stronger that worldly strong men with the big number of a million, a billion, or a trillion, since the God or Christ Jesus would provide the base number to these faithful men having index numbers.

In this context, pious weak men are stronger than worldly strong men.            

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2 Peter 1  King James Version
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

"the Spirit like a dove descending upon him" - Theological Meaning in this Corona-Pandemic

 

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Theological Meaning in this Corona-Pandemic

It is said that there are 9 x 10^21 stars in the observable universe of the size of about 46.5 billion light years.  They were all created after the original state of the universe in the diameter of 10^(-34) cm before the inflation phenomenon and the subsequent Big Bang. 

Put simply, there was extraordinarily huge energy in the very tiny size of space, like trillions of trillions of the suns pushed into a gulf ball.  And, as the tiny space could not hold the huge energy, the space was rapidly expanded with huge heat discharged, resulting in the Big Bang explosion of the energy, leading to formation of materials and stars that can be observed today.

The point at issue is how such huge explosion of enormous energy could be controlled.  How could physical laws and mathematical theories be generated in this universe through such gigantic explosion of energy?  It is naturally estimated that there must have occurred great disorder and anarchy among the state of energy.  It cannot be expected that this process of generation of the universe would result in well-ordered establishment of galaxies, solar systems, planets, molecules, atoms, and elementary particles as well as various physical phenomena.  But, they have been surely realized with the current state of the well-organized universe.

If seemingly violent explosion of gunpowder resulted in a beautiful firework, we should know that engineers designed beforehand the firework with excellent pyrotechnics.  So, it is natural to assume and believe that the God had beforehand designed this process of generation of the universe.

And, it is also natural to think that according the design by the God, the earth was created in the universe, living things were created in the earth, and eventually the mankind was created among living things.

Now, the most critical question is how the God had designed the human mind, especially consciousness on good and evil or ethical judgment.  Furthermore, we might wonder how the God had designed the fate of the mankind and individuals.    

Put simply, the God might have designed the history of the mankind.  The end of the human world might have been decided from the beginning of this universe.  The moment the vacuum energy appeared from nothing into this world before the inflation phenomenon and the Bug Bang explosion, the fate of the mankind in the earth in this solar system of the Milky Way Galaxy must have been decided.   

Indeed, the God must have designed that Abraham was born circa 2000 BCE, Christ Jesus appeared circa AD 1, and the end of the human world should come about the 21 century or 2000s.         

But the God must be merciful and benevolent.  He must give enough warnings before the decisive incident leading to the end of the world for the mankind.  And, it is natural for us to regard this corona-pandemic as one of such warnings, since victims of corona-viruses are especially many in the Christian nations and regions such as West Europe and the U.S.

Therefore, we have to see any theological meaning in this corona-pandemic not only dangerous runaway of economic and military expansion of China, the most problematic non-Christian nation in the world.        

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Mark 1  King James Version
9 And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.
10 And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
11 And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
12 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

"I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all" - The Reason for and Source of Existence of Time and Space

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The Reason for and Source of Existence of Time and Space

What is the beginning of the universe?  Scientists have found that it began with the size of the diameter of 10 to the minus 34th power cm that expanded to the diameter of 1 cm from 10 to the minus 44th power seconds to 10 to the minus 33rd power seconds after the emergence of the energy that created this universe from nothing.  This phenomenon is called the inflation before the Big Bang of the universe by a Japanese scientist.

10^(-34) cm => 1 cm in the time period from 10^(-44) to 10^(-33) seconds

One thing to be sure seems that there is nothing in the space where this universe was created before the creation of this universe with the specific energy called the vacuum energy.

And every material in this universe, such as electrons, protons, atoms, etc., was created along with creation, expansion, evolution, and deployment of the universe from the exploding vacuum energy.  But what about all the laws of nature, mathematical theories, and every abstract, ethical and spiritual concept men have come to have?

For example, we can imagine and consider zero and integers.  Where were these concepts generated?  Did the vacuum energy create these numbers?  Or, was the vacuum energy created based on mathematical theories?  If so, what or who created mathematical theories before this universe was created from the vacuum energy?

In this context, we had better believe that the God created the universe with His words, including all the mathematical and physical theories.

For example, we may assume that before the creation of this universe, there are no numbers but zero.  But in the space before this universe, special abstract or mathematic energy should exist and work to gain their existence.  The mathematical energy sometimes reaches , say, 0.9999 but as it is less than one, it cannot get existence as an integer.  But after an infinite number of trials, it reaches 0.999...(infinite times of 9)..., then it is regraded as one due to a mathematical theory.  In addition, there is a theory of addition: namely 0 + 1 = 1.  This addition was applied to 1 + 1, resulting in 2.  Then, 2 + 1 = 3, 3 + 1 = 4, etc.  Finally all the integers had come to exist.  In summary, the creation of material universe was accompanied with this mathematical theory and others.  Ultimately, we have to assume that the God created this material universe with every abstract theory and concept like the case of integers.

If any energy such as the vacuum energy created this universe, without pre-determined scientific theories, the universe should show only chaos and must collapse soon after the generation of the material universe since it cannot sustain itself due to a lack of scientific theories and fixed laws of the nature.

Before the creation of this universe or our world, there must have words of the God or every mathematical, scientific, and ethical theory.  And it is most likely that this material universe was created from part of the spiritual world where the God had created every mathematical, scientific, and ethical theory.  In other words, this universe or our world is part of the spiritual world, including Heaven and the hell.  And if it is so, human soul can be linked to the spiritual space.  Therefore, it is natural to think that if a material human body dies, his soul can move to the spiritual world from this material universe.

In the spiritual world, space and time must be very different from that in this material universe.  The diameter of 10^(-34) cm, which is estimated to be the size of this universe when it was first created, might look like the diameter of about 13.7 billion light year or more, which is roughly the present size of the universe.  Or the present size (about 13.7 billion light year or more) of the material universe might look like 10^(-34) cm in the spiritual world.

Furthermore, in the spiritual world we may freely travel through time.  After death of an old man, his soul may freely go back to his young days in the spiritual world.

In this context, we have to assume that the God is the reason for and source of existence of everything, including time and space in addition to human souls.                   

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Romans 1 King James Version
6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

"And declared to be the Son of God with power" - For Survival in the 22nd Century

 

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For Survival in the 22nd Century

When Satan realized that the God especially chose Abraham 4000 years ago, promising that his offspring would be increased and protected, Satan started to attack and destroy Jewish people.

So, Satan tried to annihilate Jewish people in Egypt and Babylonia but only failed due to God's interference by sending Moses and other prophets.  Then Satan tried to use Alexander the Great to give Greek influence on Jewish people and Judaism, which it also failed.  

But when Satan started to use the Roman Empire to disperse and wipe out Jewish people by introducing wars between Jewish people and the Empire, the God found a real crisis on Jewish people who had been survived adhering to their ethical religion with faith in the one and only God.  So, the God sent His Son among Jewish people, which became the starting point of these 2000 year history.

As the Gospels revealed, Satan made full efforts to kill God's Son, Christ Jesus, which it succeeded, but Christ Jesus resurrected and started to establish Christianity.  Satan did not yet give up.  It brainwashed most of Jewish people so that they could not believe that the God had sent His Son to them so as to save them.  Satan succeeded in separating Christianity from Jewish people, but finally the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its state religion.  Then, Satan helped other tribes defeat the empire and destroy Rome.  So, the Western Roman Empire collapsed, but Christianity survived with the Vatican.

Then Satan focused on corrupting the Popes and the Vatican.  But Protestantism appeared and separated from the Vatican.  Satan failed in completely corrupting Christianity.  Then Satan tried to brainwash some protestants even Christianity moved to Americas, the influence of which can be seen in the U.S. even today.     

But Satan succeeded in making Jewish people abhor and disbelieve Christ Jesus.  It also succeeded in making brainwashed Christians attack Jewish people, but it finally failed in making Hitler the king of Europe.  Satan also failed in making others who could not accept Christ Jesus as God's son, such as Muslims and Mongols, occupy Europe and hinder development of civilization based on Christianity.  Yet, Satan continued to corrupt Christians, Jewish people, Muslims, etc.

The current history is extension of this trend.  Indeed, there are still anti-Christian powers such as China, and corruption in the Christian-Jewish world is going on.  Satan is still trying to destroy the world established by descendants of Abraham.  Nonetheless, if a critical moment comes or a critical danger happens, it is expected that the God will send His Son again to the human world to save people from Satan.

However, as people have been brainwashed by Satan using money as its tool to the extent that cannot be accepted by the God in these 2000 years, the God might finally forsake the mankind.  This corona-pandemic cannot be regraded as the final act of the God on the corrupt mankind based on His judgment, but it must be a warning from the God.          

Christ Jesus said that men had to choose the God or money, and most of people today seem to choose money, a tool for temptation by Satan.  So, it is no wonder that the God got angry with men.  But, the God must surely give a warning before His decisive action.  This corona-pandemic must be one of such warnings,

The long battle between the God and Satan has continued to date.  We are at the final stage of this battle.  If we do not leave Satan and follow the God and Christ Jesus, we may not survive till the 22nd century.

In this context, the last challenge for the mankind should be abandoning money and introducing non-money economy or economy based on no money.  It is because money is a tool of Satan to corrupt and debase the mankind.  If the mankind should survive in the 22nd century, money must be a thing of the past in the 22nd century.

In the world ruled by Satan, a man cannot get even a dollar without selling part of his soul to Satan.  But, it is apparent that there is no money in the Kingdom of God.  There is no need for money in Heaven.  The God must abhor money.

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Rom 1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Rom 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Rom 1:6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:
Rom 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.