"I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God" - The Last Words of Christ Jesus on the Cross

 

Cross on the Sky

The Last Words of Christ Jesus on the Cross

It is said that when a man dies, he tells truth.  In this context, the last words of Christ Jesus before His death on the cross are important:

(Luke 23)
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.
35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
36 And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
37 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.
38 And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This Is The King Of The Jews.
39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
41 And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
44 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Therefore, followers of Christ Jesus and those who have faith in Him should believe that there is paradise or Heaven.  It means that there is the afterlife, which means that death is not the end of one's life but introduction to the spirit world.

If death means complete nullification, extinguishment, or evaporation of one's life or soul that leads to sheer nothingness of one's existence, Christ Jesus should not have said those words: Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

His words meant that there are the afterlife, the spirit world, Heaven and the hell.  Therefore, death is the transition of one's life or soul out of this world to such a world.  However, even in Christian countries, there are many who think that death might bring complete evaporation of one's life or soul with nothing left.  It might be caused by behaviors or orientation of the Vatican, churches, priests, etc.  They do not emphasize the teaching of Christ Jesus that those who believe in Him shall never die.

But, if the Vatican and all the churches and priests start to yell out that your soul will enter the afterlife after death in this world so that you have not to worry about death, the world should be changed.  If everybody comes to have no fear in death and dying, the world should be changed drastically.

But, to prevent evil men, criminals, terrorists, etc. from committing harmful acts without fear of death, another teaching of Christ Jesus is critical.   It is that the poor and faithful will be accepted in Heaven but the rich and evil should go to the hell, after death in this world.

Indeed, if you cannot enter into Heaven in the afterlife after death in this world, it will lose meaning or value that there is the afterlife.  Yet, I think that the Vatican and all the churches and priests should yell out that there is the afterlife in order to strengthen the faith of believers and save them from the fear of death. 

Physical bodies die some day in this world.  But, one's soul in one's body should survive physical or biological death in this material world.  Indeed, one's body will suffer complete nullification, extinguishment, or evaporation but one's soul should make the shift to the afterlife or the spirit world.

From the view point of material or biological death, it should be true that there is only nothingness after one's death.  But for those who believe in Christ Jesus, death in this world is happy departure of their souls from this world to Heaven in the spirit world. 

But, as the mission of Christ Jesus was to lead people to Heaven, it should be big sadness that He felt when He found that men were so bad and evil even to try to kill Him on the cross, thus losing His heart as other last words on the cross suggested.    

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John 11, King James Version

25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.
28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

"he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" - Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

 

On Tokyo Bay

Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

According to Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), an American clairvoyant who claimed to channel from his higher self (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce), Christ Jesus had traveled to India, Persia, and Egypt in his youth before His appearance on the Jordan River in the Gospels.  

Specifically Christ Jesus had spent four years in His travel and training in Persia and India, and then at death of Joseph, His father in this world, He returned to Palestine and further traveled to Egypt where He made some ritual in the Pyramid at Giza with John the Baptist. 

Although this Cayce's reading on life of Christ Jesus has not been proved academically, it is interesting especially as it presented a different view to the life of Christ Jesus than the conventional one.  Especially, it seems reasonable that Joseph and Mary had lived in the environment surrounded by the Essenes before their marriage and Joseph had been an oracle of the Essenes.  The life of Christ Jesus in young ages was not that of a son of a carpenter in a village, but His family closely associated with the Essenes.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a kind of red hairs, although He looked strong and tough.  He delivered jokes at the last supper.  His image in His last days should be changed somehow if we trust in Cayce.  Anyway, Cayce was a pious Christian different some other psychics or clairvoyants.        

Although, the spirit of Christ Jesus had been sent by the God to this world to form the body of a baby in Mary, He had to learn religious matters, etc. as a human being in this world.  For this purpose, He might have really travelled to Persia, India, and Egypt.  He did not learn knowledge and wisdom He would later teach people in Palestine while just living as a carpenter in village.  He should have accomplished His spiritual search through efforts as a mere man by the time He came to the Jordan River as depicted in the Gospels, so that when the God saw the grown-up Jesus with consolidated faith in the God, He praised Jesus.      

(Matthew 3)
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Anyway, when the Gospels were written, the Essenes seemed to be still active in Palestine until the Jewish Roman War.  Titus Flavius Josephus (37 - 100), a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, mentioned the Essenes in his writings.  Therefore, it is a mystery that the Gospels do not mention the Essenes.  Early followers of Christ Jesus and the authors of the Gospels might have tried to hide some privacy of Christ Jesus by omitting descriptions about Essenes having close relationships with the family of Christ Jesus.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a sister called Lutz who married a Roman soldier and later lived in Athens.  These spiritual revelations have not been academically corroborated.  And, there is no need for us to know details of privacy of the family of Christ Jesus, since Christ Jesus said that those who heard the teaching of the God and behaved and acted following the teaching were His brothers, sisters, and mother.     

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John 11, King James Version

20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

"Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God" - Satan is More Vicious than Viruses

 

Tokyo

Satan is More Vicious than Viruses

The last words believed to be so according to the Gospel by Mark are as follows:

Mark 16

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

20 And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

Therefore, Christianity has survived many tragedies, wars, and pandemics, since followers of Christ Jesus have not been harmed by any deadly things such as corona-viruses and, more than that, they have been able to cure the sick.  Therefore, the Vatican and other churches should send their priests, etc. to the world of today suffering from the corona-virus.   

However, there is something worse and more dangerous than the current corona-pandemic.  It is Satan.  Satan, demons, and other evil spirits coming from the hells in the spirit world are brainwashing many people, abusing them, and having them attack followers of the God and Christ Jesus.

Therefore, any reliable psychics should see Satan, demons, and other evil spirits in the spirit world.  In this context, it is reasonable that Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, gave warning against evil spirits living in the spirit world.  

According to Swedenborg, those spirits had been once human beings in this world, but as they loved evil, they went to various hells after death in this world.  In the spirit world, they could exercise their evil power without restrictions under which they had lived in the human world, so that these evil spirits became evil as much as possible; they even tried to destroy living human beings.  Swedenborg wrote that one evil spirit once tried to take over his body when his soul left his body to see the spirit world, which he could narrowly escaped.

Therefore, according to the Gospels and Swedenborg, evil spirits always tried to occupy and control living human beings.  Demoniac persons can be found sometimes in any society.  Therefore, the Vatican cannot repeal exorcism if it is not completely occupied and controlled by Satan.

From the beginning, if there had not been influences of Satan in this world, there should not have been any needs for the God to send His Son Christ Jesus to the human world.  Accordingly, the life of Christ Jesus was featured by fight against Satan and people brainwashed, dominated, and controlled by Satan.  Without this fight, no Gospels should be written.

In other words, Christianity and the Gospels are based on this fight of Christ Jesus against Satan and His victory.  It is not Judas Iscariot that paradoxically contributed to the establishment of the Gospels and Christianity but Satan and its followers including Judas.  The Gospels are the books that tell how dangerous and harmful Satan is.  Satan came from the hell in the spirit world immediately when it knew that the God sent His Son Christ Jesus to the human world.  And then, the story of Christ Jesus began as written in the Gospels.

The image of Christ Jesus on the cross in every church even today tells people how dangerous and harmful Satan is.  It is more dangerous than the corona-virus.  Now the corona-pandemic have infected more than 250 million people in the world.  But, those brainwashed or controlled by Satan can be estimated at 10 times the number.   

Satan is more vicious than viruses.       

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Mark 11, King James Version

20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

"preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only" - Hellen Keller and Swedenborg

 

Autumn Sunset around Tokyo

Hellen Keller and Swedenborg

Without seeing and hearing, it is very difficult to conceive the God.  But, the ability to see and hear does not assure that you can see and hear from the God.  Yet, your soul must be able to see and hear angels in the spirit world.

Matthew 13

15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.

Without a good heart, it is useless to have eyes and ears, since it is the heart that judges what is seen and heard.  In this context, it is a big surprise that Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), although with visual and hearing disabilities, could understand the God and what Swedenborg wrote in his books on the spirit world. 

Helen Keller wrote that she could fly to Athens from the U.S. through the spirit world when she was a teenager.  But how could she know that it was Athens that she flew to?  She must have seen the city in Greece while living in the U.S. through her spiritual eyes, since she was blind and deaf.  

It is thought that Helen Keller tried to see things in this world through her spiritual eyes just like Swedenborg saw things in the spirit world through his spiritual eyes.  However, spiritual entities living in the spirit world cannot see the human world or this material world, according to Swedenborg.  As we cannot usually see the spirit world, spirits cannot usually see the human world.  Nonetheless, it is thought that Helen Keller saw this human world, which could not be seen through her physical eyes, through her spiritual world, which seems to be reflected in her writings.

Helen Keller wrote about a butterfly depicted by ancient Egyptians as a symbol of life.  She wrote that a butterfly grew from a pupa and flew to the sky.  Her description about the nature is clear and deep.  She must have seen the nature in this world from the spirit world through her spiritual eyes.  Therefore, she believed in Swedenborg, an 18th century elite scholar and psychic.  She must have been able to see and hear in the spirit world while living in this world like Swedenborg, and thus she must have understood the God to be converted and healed.     

Helen Keller visited Japan three times in 1937, 1948, and 1955.  But her faith in Swedenborg has not taken big attention in Japan, although many books about her have been published. 

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Acts 11, King James Version

18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
19 Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

"many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary" - How to Conquer Pains and Fears

 

Tokyo Bay

How to Conquer Pains and Fears

The Buddha did not teach people about the afterlife.  He taught how to to conquer pains and fears caused when people were born, got sick and old, and finally died.  Therefore, even today some schools of Japanese Buddhism do not mention about the afterlife and men's souls and spirits while others are focusing on the afterlife or the pure land.

The ultimate goal of Buddhism seems to attain the state of mind that transcends any pains and fears through understanding truth.  But, some schools of Buddhism teach that men can be saved by entering into the spirit world or the paradise. 

The original teaching of the Buddha must have had nothing to do with the spirit world and the God who presides over this world and the spirit world.  But, Japanese people who had believed spiritualism promising the afterlife before the coming of Buddhism to Japan around the 6th century accepted Buddhism mostly as a teaching of assuring the afterlife.

Christianity is based on the notion that there are Heaven and the hell in addition to the God.  According to original Christianity, love of the God created this world and human beings, so that we have to love the God so as to get eternal life.

The most important difference between Buddhism and Christianity is whether or not regarding love of the God, the sole creator of this universe and the spirit world, as the source of everything, including our lives. 

If we follow Christianity, we have to think that pains and fears in this world would be resolved by our faith in the God.  It means that the status of a human mind when praying to the God should be similar to the ideal status of a human mind that can be acquired through ascetic training of Buddhism.

It is interesting that most of reports on the spirit world, as reported by spirit mediums who communicated with spiritual entities living in the spirit world, tell that human souls that have entered into the spirit world after death in this world are required to perform ascetic training and enhance their internal status in order to ascend to the higher levels and came closer to the God.

However, it is said that when our souls receive love of the God in Heaven, we can understand truth in the human world and the spirit world.  We must understand in Heaven why we lived in such manners and ways as we had in the human world while living in the material human world.  All the answers to questions we have in this world must be found in Heaven or in light from the God.

And, we should believe that Christ Jesus taught people to love the God with all of our hearts and might based on such answers as can be found in Heaven or truth.  In this context, we should be able to conquer pains and fears in this world by loving the God, since the God is the source of everything.

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John 11, King James Version

18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

"sought of him a sign from heaven" - Rich Men and Poor Men without Faith

 

Mt. Fuji around Tokyo, 100 km Far

Rich Men and Poor Men without Faith

Christ Jesus must hate the rich, according to the Gospels:

Matthew 19
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10
23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Luke 18
24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Every poor man hears these words should believe in Christ Jesus, since he must know that being rich is being evil.  

If a rich man loves his poor neighbors, he should give money to the poor neighbors, so that he cannot be rich any more, since there should be many poor neighbors.  In other words, in order to continue to be rich, a rich man should neglect his poor neighbors.

From the beginning, a man with love to his neighbors will not become rich by competing with and defeating them, so that he cannot be rich.

In this context, being rich means having little love to neighbors.  But, Christ Jesus told to love our neighbors as much as we love ourselves while loving the God with all our hearts and might.  Therefore, it is natural that Christ Jesus declared that rich men could not enter into Heaven.

The reason why Christianity prevailed in these 2000 years must be that poor people, a majority of the mankind, have loved these words of Christ Jesus because those words match their thoughts that rich men are bad and evil or men cannot be rich without being bad and evil.

Satan uses money to tempt men.  Satan arouses men's desire for being rich so that they would do anything bad or evil to be rich.  Satan encourages men to become rich neglecting their neighbors even if they know that poor men should suffer and become unhappy.  Satan tells men to be rich even by neglecting and abusing poor neighbors.

First, men think that they have to neglect, abuse, and inflict others so as for them to be rich.  But, gradually, they must come to feel joy in neglecting, abusing, and inflicting others.  They must become happy to see others suffering and feeling pain.  In this way, they will become followers of Satan.   

Being rich is a start point to become a follower of Satan.  It is clear that rich men cannot enter into Heaven.  So, the issue is whether or not a poor man without faith in the God or Christ Jesus can enter into Heaven. 

Probably, every poor man will be put above any rich men in the spirit world.  But, a poor man without faith should love the hell more than Heaven, so that he will spontaneously go to the hell.  Therefore, only poor men who feel happy in Heaven should be true poor men.  (However, such poor men without faith should be very rare; they might be spies of Satan.) 

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Luke 11, King James Version

15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
16 And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
18 If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.

"the Holy Ghost fell on them" - Prophecies on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Corona Pandemic

 

Around the Tokyo Station

Prophecies on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the Corona Pandemic 

It is well known that Swedenborg saw the spirit of Christ Jesus and then acquired the spiritual ability to see the spirit world.  He wrote scores of books describing his experiences of seeing the spirit world.  But, a Japanese woman named Ms. Matsubara saw 40 years ago the spiritual face of a Russian American female, who was later found to live in the 19th century, and then she started to write her spiritual experiences in magazines, etc., following an advice of the female spirit.  Ms. Matsubara wrote various predictions as spiritually guided by the female spirit and other spirits, which gave her some popularity in the Japanese society, and she even got some precious advice from the female spirit that helped her get out of her financial problem.    

Eventually Ms. Matsubara obtained a big public attention as she could foretell the occurrence of the great earthquake and tsunami in North East Japan in 2011 that triggered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.     

It was in the middle of February in 2011 that her prediction was published in a Japanese magazine, telling that she felt something great was moving on the pacific coast side of North East Japan.  And, she saw the number 5 in space.  As she had experienced this spiritual incident five weeks before the occurrence of the 2011 Great Tsunami, it can be understood why she had seen the number 5. 

Ms. Matsubara did not who the female spirit was until 2015 when she visited New York.  After her schedule for the travel was fixed, the female spirit appeared and showed her the name of a hotel she should visit at a certain address in New York.  But, when she actually visited the address, there was a hotel with a different name.  Nonetheless, after returning home in Japan, she found that the name of the hotel the female spirt had told her was the old name of the current one of the hotel.  And the hotel was once a base of the Theosophical Society.  As she saw a book of the Society, she found the face of the female spirit who had guided her for years.  Her name was Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831 - 1891), a Russian author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 and gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky).

 

It is a mystery why the spirit of Blavatsky chose Ms. Matsubara to issue the prediction of the 2011 Tsunami around the Fukushima nuclear plant more than decades ago from its occurrence.  As the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union in 1986, the spirit of Blavatsky, who was a Russian American, might have been very much concerned about the coming disaster in Fukushima, Japan, since it was before 1986 that Ms. Matsubara first saw the spirit of Blavatsky. 

Ms. Matsubara saw various figures of spirits since her childhood.  But it was around 1981 at her age around 35 that she found that the spiritual figures she could see could not be seen by others around her.  Then she saw the spirit of Blavatsky telling her to write what she told her.   After Ms. Matsubara knew that the female spirit was once called Blavatsky, the spirit told her that it had been abut 125 years since she had come to the spirit world.

Now, Ms. Matsubara wrote that when she first heard the news about the corona-virus pandemic, she thought that it would continue to 2024 or 2025.

But, I felt that its influence might continue to 2026, and several years after this pandemic, another big tragedy would occur in Japan as I referred to the Bible.  But, after this tragedy in the near future, Japan would see the star of hope.  I think that it meant that Japan would be safe in the 21st century even if WWIII should happen in the world after this corona pandemic.   

(As for the 2011 Tsunami Tragedy in Japan, I only felt an image of a gigantic wave attacking Tokyo several years before the tragedy, which was though not published.)

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Acts 11, King James Version

12 And the Spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man's house:
13 And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;
14 Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.

"behold, the third woe cometh quickly" - Truth of Heaven, the Hell, and the Spirit World

 

Around the Imperial Plaza in Tokyo

Truth of Heaven, the Hell, and the Spirit World

Being rich is being evil, according to the words of Christ Jesus.  Therefore, it is very difficult for rich men to enter into Heaven like a camel going through the eye of a needle.  But, the Pope and priests of other churches never proclaim this teaching at the start and the end of every Mass.  Rather, each of them looks like one of rich men.

Therefore, it is natural that the God and Christ Jesus get angry.  And, it is no wonder that the God has sent an angel of death with the coronavirus to this rotten, corrupt, and degraded world.   

But, you may wonder why being rich is being evil to the degree that a rich man is condemned to the hell?  And, you may also wonder why the Vatican and other churches do not aim to become poor as much as possible, so that they compete about poverty? 

In this context, the poorest man in the world in any era should be the first man to be admitted into Heaven in the era.  Or, you can only prove your faith in the God and Christ Jesus by the degree of your poverty.  So, Heaven is the place with full of poor men, but the hell must be the place with full of rich men.  Yet, those poor men should turn to rich men in Heaven while those rich men should turn to poor men in the hell.  Poor men in this world will become rich in Heaven while rich men in this world will become poor in the hell. 

But, rich men would spontaneously go to the hell while poor men would avoid the hell and be accepted in Heaven.  If rich men tried to enter into Heaven, they could not bear the light of love, truth, and goodness overflowing Heaven.  Rich men should be happy avoiding the light of Heaven while poor men should be happy basking in the light in Heaven.

Those who were rich in this world can fully expose and exercise in the hell their characters and dispositions with love of being evil to others and exercising evil to others without fear of worldly laws and punishments and concerns about social restrictions.  They think that they can fully dominate and harm others in the hell without being afraid of what people will say and judge about them.  In other words, they try to be evil as much as possible in the hell, since no punishments come to them from the God.  Accordingly, those who were rich in this world would spontaneously and joyfully go to the hell.

This truth tells that what rich men love is ultimately being evil more than simply being rich.  They hate the God, Christ Jesus, love, truth, goodness, etc.  Satan is their symbol, king, and god.  They punish one another when they try to be good to any degree.  They must feel extreme happiness when they exercise evil and harm others.  Yet, they know there is wealth or something good in Heaven, so that they try to invade Heaven with violence and deceit only in vain.      

These are the states in Heaven and the hell, according to Christ Jesus.  This is the state in the spiritual world as Swedenborg wrote.  And, this must be the truth men should know or know vaguely subject to their instincts. 

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Revelation 11, King James Version

12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

"Jesus spake of his death" - Most of Rich Men Go to the Hell from the Spirit World after Death

 

Mt. Fuji, 100 km Far

Most of Rich Men Go to the Hell from the Spirit World after Death

It seems that one in thousand is to have near-death experiences, which is however smaller than the number of people infected by the corona virus. 

Their reports on their near-death experiences match the description about the spirit world by Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic who was allowed by Christ Jesus to see the afterworld while living in this world.

However, those who had near-death experiences just took access to the entrance to the spirit world.  They did not see the whole status of the the afterlife that comprises of the spirit world, Heaven, and the hell.  It is said that the spirit world is much more beautiful and clearer than this world.  So, they seemed to take it as Heaven.  Accordingly, their reports on near-death experiences are often taken as the proof that both the good and the evil will enter into Heaven alike.  However, according to Swedenborg, souls that have entered into the spirit world are separated between those going to Heaven and others going to the hell.  Therefore, the reports by those having near-death experiences just reveal the status of the spirit world before Heaven and the hell.

Swedenborg wrote that souls of evil men spontaneously choose the hell after death without being forced by the God.  The hell is not the place to punish evil men's souls for their sins after death in this world as some churches teach.  They choose and go to the hell from the spirit world on a voluntary base, since the hell looks so attractive to them.  Indeed, in the hell, there are no laws, worldly restrictions, and need to think much of the public image; in other words, souls of evil men can do evil as much as they like.  Accordingly, they will be 1,000 times or more violent, satanic, and harmful.  They execute their evil power to others who have also come to the hell from the spirit world after death.  Attacking one another with evil force and intent is a common practice in the hell, which also means suffering from others' attacks is also a common state in the hell.

Probably, in a near-death experience, the soul of a dying man must not see evil souls living in the hell, so that it thinks that the afterlife is so beautiful like a kind of Heaven.  Indeed, it is rare to find a near-death experience report that tells the horrible status of the hell.

Nonetheless, the spirit world is linked with the hell, so that evil spirits in the hell can come into the spirit world where spirits can sometimes communicate with souls of living men.  Therefore, it is dangerous for a living man to communicate with spirits in the spirit world, since an evil spirit can occupy the body of the living man through communications with him.  The evil spirit would try to destroy the man from the inside of his body and the mind after suppressing his soul.  For this reason, Swedenborg wrote that it was dangerous for a man to communicate with a spirit in the spirit world.  So, the spirit world is hidden from living people.  Swedenborg also wrote that if living men could see the spirit world, he would go insane.

Only those who have come so close to death to have near-death experiences or who have been allowed by Christ Jesus to see the spirit, like Swedenborg, should be able to safely see the spirit world.        

    

But, what is being evil, although Swedenborg simply wrote that evil men's spirits hate the light of the God?  They love violence, deceit, and dominating and harming others as well as seeing others suffering.

In my opinions, the state of being evil is represented by rich men who can be and continue to be rich while knowing other poor men suffering without money or being forced to reluctantly obey the rich men due to a lack of money.  In this context, being rich is tantamount to being evil.  Therefore, Christ Jesus said that rich men could not virtually enter into Heaven, which means that evil men could not bear the light of Heaven so that they chose to go to the hell. 

Nonetheless, Swedenborg wrote that he saw some rich men in Heaven.  And, it is thought that Swedenborg, an elite official and scholar of Sweden in the 18th century, was himself a kind of rich men.  Probably, those rich men happened to be or continue to be rich without knowing what states poor men were in.  Therefore, Christ Jesus did not say that poor men could not absolutely enter into Heaven, but for poor men to enter into Heaven is more difficult than a camel going through the eye of a needle.

That is why I am assured that most of rich men go to the hell from the spirit world after death in this world.       

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John 11, King James Version

10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep.
14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
16 Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

"the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force" - Warnings from Newton and Swedenborg

 

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Warnings from Newton and Swedenborg 

Swedenborg (1688-1772) who saw the spirit world or the afterlife while living in this world in the 18th century reported that he saw the spirit of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) in the afterlife and praised his sincerity.

Swedenborg wrote about the Last Judgment being conducted in the spirit world in 1757.  And he expected that this Last Judgment in the spirt world should affect the human society in this world centuries later.  On the other hand, Newton predicted after years of study on the Bible that the end of the world might start after 2060.

The 18th century is the time when the Scientific Revolution had already started and the Industrial Revolution is happening in England.  Swedenborg often traveled to England from Sweden to learn science and write his books on spirit matters.  His original writings are now kept in the British Museum.

According to Swedenborg, there have been the Last Judgment three times in the history both in the spirit world and the human world.  The fist happened when the Great Flood that Noah experienced occurred.  The second was when Christ Jesus first came to this world.  And the third occurred in the spirit world while Swedenborg was spiritually observing it.  Each Last Judgment was conducted to purify the spirit world and save good spirits from evil spirits.  They influenced the human world, too, although the human beings have not been exterminated. 

Anyway, the modern human society is supported by modern science and technology started with Newton and other scientists since the middle of the 17th century.  While science and technology has developed drastically without interruption to date, effect and influence of the Vatican, Protestant churches, etc. has dwindled.  In this environment, people have come to stick to material desires and forget spiritual matters.  People have come to regard everything spiritual and religious as superstition or a moral lesson.  But when near-death experiences were studied and reported publicly by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Raymond Moody, etc. after WWII, their books received a great response from public, since their works reminded them of importance of the spirit world and the afterlife apart from teachings of traditional religions.

Swedenborg and Newton were credible and responsible persons.  And, the human world today looks no better than a faithless world with so many people brainwashed by money and chasing material happiness in this world without regarding salvation of their souls in this world and the afterlife.  Therefore, the spirit world or the afterlife must be full of evil souls to whom greedy people have turned to after their deaths in this world.  As so many evil souls have come to the spirit world or the afterlife from this human world, the God should execute the Last Judgement sooner or later in this world like the way He conducted in the spirit world.  This Corona pandemic must be a warning to it.

According to Swedenborg, in the first Last Judgment, evil spirits that had come to emerge in the spirit world after the era of Adam were wiped away, and in the second Last Judgment the spirit world with full of evil spirits and Satan causing confusions there were suppressed by Christ Jesus.  In the third Last Judgment, it is said that bad influences from rotten and degraded churches and priests were cleared in the spirit world.

As today's worship of money and rampancy of materialism driven by modern capitalism and commercialism can be thought as a result of rotten and degraded churches and priests, the third Last Judgment is really needed in this world like it happened in 1757 in the spirit world.

We may see the result around 2060 as Newton predicted even if the human history is not ended due to the third Last Judgment.  As for my opinion based on inspiration, the near future will not be so tragic, but the remote future of the mankind looks dim.

Nonetheless, if we are accepted in Heaven through the spirit world after death in this world, we can get eternal life regardless of whatever status this human world will be in, according to Christ Jesus.     

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Matthew 11, King James Version

10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"I send my messenger before thy face" - Eternal Life is the Most Valuable Thing

 

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Eternal Life is the Most Valuable Thing

Eternal life is the most valuable thing that men can obtain.  Even if his life in this world can be extended one more year, a rich and old man with a severe illness would pay one million dollar or more to a medical doctor, a man with super-natural power, a saint, etc. in charge.

But what is the eternal life?

46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
48 I am that bread of life. (John 6)

17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17)

Eternal life belongs to the God.  And, the God gave Christ Jesus the power to give eternal life to men.  And, eternal life means to know the God and Christ Jesus or it is given to a man when he sees the God and Christ Jesus.  But, Christ Jesus said that any man who believes in Him should be given eternal life.  This is one of core creeds of Christianity.

In addition, Swedenborg, an 18th century psychic, wrote that everybody's soul has eternal life since it had come from the God who had eternal life.  In deed, every report of men who had near-death experience showed that every soul could enter into the spirit world after death in this world.  So, it seems that everyone has eternal life in his soul that can live forever in the spirit world or the afterlife regardless of whether or not he believes in the God or Christ Jesus.

However, Swedenborg wrote that every soul that entered into the spirit world was requested there to enhance itself to ascend to upper levels closer to the God; evil spirits of evil men could also enter into the spirit world but they gathered themselves in places as far as the God to avoid the light of love and goodness emitted from the God, which was called the hells.

Nonetheless, the God has the power to destroy Satan and those in the hells as Matthew 10 reads:

28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Put simple, if we believe in the God and Christ Jesus, we would not be put into the hells, so that we should not be destroyed by the God, obtaining or securing eternal life of our souls.

So then, what should we do to prove that we believe in the God and Christ Jesus?  By reading the Gospels straightforwardly, we have to conclude that we have to be poor as much as possible to prove our belief in the God and Christ Jesus.

Therefore, we have to say that only poor men can acquire eternal life in Heaven while rich men go to the hell to be destroyed by the God.

 

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Matthew 11, King James Version

9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
11 Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find" - Socrates and Christ Jesus Claimed Not To Fear Death

 

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Socrates and Christ Jesus Claimed Not To Fear Death

Socrates (470-399 BC) said that there were two possibilities about what would happen after death. 

One is complete nothingness like sleep without a dream.  Another is transition of one's soul to another world or life after death.

He argued that whichever happened after death, it was better than continuing life in this world with bad incidents day after day and bad dreams night after night.  Socrates also stressed that people did not have wisdom of ignorance while they were afraid of death they did not understand although he admitted that he did not completely understand death.  So, Socrates said that he had at least wisdom of ignorance. 

Socrates also said that especially good-natured people should not be afraid of death, since gods would surely accept them in the afterworld.  Accordingly, Plato, one of followers of Socrates, developed his philosophy based on the notion that human souls should enter into the afterworld.

However, this notion that human souls would enter into the afterworld after death in this world did not save the world.

Then, 400 years after Socrates, Christ Jesus came to this world telling people that everybody could enter into the spirit world after his physical death in this world but only souls of poor men could be accepted in Heaven while those of rich men should go to the hell.  

In other words, Christ Jesus came to save this world by saving poor people, since rich people did not have any requirement that this world should be saved.  So, Christ Jesus tried to save this world by giving assurance to the poor that their souls would be surely accepted in Heaven in the spirit world after their death in this world.

In this regard, Christ Jesus' claim that He had been dispatched by the God to the human world is critical, since the God created the spirit world and the physical human world.

Put simply, if we admit the existence of the God, we have to admit and believe what Christ Jesus said about what would happen to men after their death in this world.

If Socrates had believed in the God, the sole creator of the universe, he should have clearly said that men, poor and rich alike, should enter into the spirit world after death.  So, nobody should be afraid of death, he must say.

But, Christ Jesus must have thought that saving this world meant saving poor people.  And, to save the poor people, He told them that they could surely be accepted in Heaven, where they would be happy, through the spirit world after their deaths in this world.

Anyway, the greatest figures both in philosophy and religion in Europe assured that men, especially poor men, should not be afraid of death.             

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Luke 11, King James Version
8 I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

"When he had heard therefore that he was sick" - Live Poor, Die Poor, and Get Accepted in Heaven to be Given Eternal Life

 

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Live Poor, Die Poor, and Get Accepted in Heaven to be Given Eternal Life

Christ Jesus told a rich, young man that he had to sell all his possessions to others to earn money and give the money to the poor and then he should follow Him in order to be accepted in Heaven and given eternal life.

Matthew 19
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

This incident simply tells that no words can be trusted but only concrete actions are needed to show one's faith.

You may say that you are following the words of the God, but you cannot prove that you are following the words of the God without selling your possessions and giving all the money obtained from the transaction to the poor.  

If you sold your possessions and gave all the money obtained from the transaction to the poor, you would be poor, too.  But, by this act, you can accumulate treasure in Heaven and obtain eternal life.

Therefore, being poor must be appreciated more than witnessing for compliance with the teaching of the God.  It means being rich is supported by some serious evil, but being poor means a lack of the serious evil.  There must be something important that can be found and understood only when we get poor.  

Anyway, the world poor men see is different from the world rich men see.  And, the world poor men see should be akin to the world Christ Jesus saw.

Put simply, all we can say is to be poor, live poor, die poor, and get accepted in Heaven so that you can be given eternal life by the God.  

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John 11, King James Version

4 When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
6 When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
7 Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.
8 His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10 But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.