after a sweep...(après un champ...)
Miracle Rivers and Jesus' Prophecy on Islam
(Fleuves de miracle et prophètes de Jésus sur l'Islam)
PART I: Miracle Rivers
1. The Seine
(La Seine)
This Sunday night, one TV program in Japan presented headwaters of the Seine, France.
A Japanese female TV reporter got there through Paris. It was a very narrow stream trickling in a forest of a hilly terrain.
But, I was startled to see the young Japanese female reporter held a pose, standing just over a stream in a stride as it is so narrow.
It is bad-mannered; it is blasphemy to the French people; and it shows complete foolishness.
I am very sorry for French people who love the Seine and regard the headwaters of the Seine as a sanctuary, maybe, since the age of Roman occupation.
Indeed, there are foolish TV girls in Japan as well as wise TV girls.
Conversely, I will never be pleased if I see a French girl striking a pose and striding over the headwaters of the Ara-kawa river.
2. The Ara-kawa
Last night, another Japanese TV program reported that the major part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area can be submerged if the Ara-kawa (literally meaning a rough river), running through Tokyo from the north to the Tokyo Bay, overflows due to much heavier rains than the one the recent typhoon has brought about.
The river terrace of the Ara-kawa is vast, probably the largest in Japan, with full of golf courses, paddy fields, various kinds of parks, and even a driving school and police facilities.
It is around, and adjacent to, the Tokyo Metropolitan Area; but it is very rare that foreign sightseers are invited there.
3. The Euphrates
It has been also reported today in Japan that 60% of US citizens supports withdrawal of US troops from Iraq by the next spring.
Indeed, the Euphrates is a river so sacred for mankind while being tainted by human bloods so much for so long, which itself may be foretelling the fate of mankind.
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PART II: Jesus' Prophets on Islam
A Study on Jesus Christ's Prediction of Islam (revised draft)
(Une étude sur la prévision de Jésus le Christ de l'Islam [ébauche révisée])
1. Executive Summary
One of EEE Reporter's main concerns is relationship between Christianity and Islam. It is a key to understanding the underlying inevitability and mechanism of the human history in these 2000 years and more. Accordingly, such insight would really change views of people on the contemporary world and thus have decisive and positive influence on their thoughts and attitudes in their daily lives as well as in their professional lives.
That is why it is meaningful to present how to study words of Jesus Christ in the context of relationship between the so called Christianity and Islam.
2. Introduction
The human history has been disrupted, partly terminated, and suffering unfavorable, drastic change resulting in a loss of decisive proofs and witnesses about critical, historical incidents and figures. Every word of Jesus Christ might have been really preserved and handed down over generations through oral communications in and around the Vatican. However, a bad tree bears a bad fruit. The Vatican cannot pass a test for qualification and confidence that are required for performing this holy mission of oral tradition and honest preservation of the words of the Son of God. Therefore, we have to rely on the Old Testament and the New Testament, as such a mode and a manner really look like conforming to the will of God.
In this context, EEE Reporter will solely handle the Old Testament and the New Testament but not Vatican's oral tradition. It also means every poor man today can access and confirm the contents and meaning of this argument by EEE Reporter.
In this way, we will verify that Jesus Christ really implied in His teaching the emergence of Islam in later years.
3. The Old Testament
There are many things to discuss on the Old Testament. But, here simplicity will be adopted as the norms for description, since you may be very busy like a CEO, a CFO, a CIO, a CTO, etc. in a prosperous company such as US Boeing.
Europeans and Israelite Europeans have thought that Asians, Africans, and indigenous Americans who do not know the Old Testament are fools and savages. However, compared with Indian philosophy, including Buddhism, and Chinese philosophy and historical records, including Confucianism, in addition to Japanese classical literature, the Old Testament is not so excellent in terms of a level of human thoughts, completeness as a work of art, and depth and comprehensiveness of contents.
(Some Israelite Americans, including a former US Secretary of Treasure, cannot even appreciate difference between Asians, more civilized than Israelites, and indigenous Americans unluckily insulated from the Four Great Ancient Urban Civilizations.)
If literal works on Buddhism are the Palace of Versailles, the Old Testament is that building on No.10 Downing Street. Or Buddhism itself is academy but the Old Testament is a hotchpotch of various descriptions if not holy authenticated and signified.
In addition, the Old Testament had been a supportive means for Israelites before the loss of Jerusalem to promote their religious lives.
After the emergence of Jesus Christ and the fall of Jerusalem in the first century, the Old Testament lost the holy position in both the minds of Israelites and followers of Jesus Christ.
Put simply, we can neglect the Old Testament in this discussion...
4. The New Testament and the Gospel
There are many things to discuss on the New Testament and the Gospel. But, here simplicity will be adopted as the norms for description, since you may be very busy like a CEO, a CFO, a CIO, a CTO, etc. in a prosperous company such as US Boeing...
4-1. Authenticity
If we cannot believe that the God has really allowed for effective recording and reporting of words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, we cannot logically and emotionally believe that the God loves mankind.
Conversely, those who logically and emotionally believe that the God loves mankind can find effective recording and reporting of words of Jesus Christ in the Gospel.
Put simply, all we need is the Gospel...
4-2. Words of Jesus Christ on Islam
Put simply, the key to this discussion is the expression "the son of man."
Put more simply, as Jesus Christ virtually asserted that He must be called "the son of man," you cannot blame Islam on the grounds that Islam regards Jesus Christ as a mere man, since a "man" is really a "son of man."
Conversely, Jesus Christ predicted that there would be a new religion that would regard Him as a mere man, though, while admitting that He is a prophet.
(other discussions will be omitted here for today...)
4-3. Proverbs Assumed to Imply Islam
From King James Version of the Gospel, we can extract some passages assumed to be eventual prophets of Jesus Christ on Islam.
4-3-1. Five Wise and Five Foolish Girls
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Mat 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Mat 25:2 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Mat 25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Mat 25:4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Mat 25:5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Mat 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Mat 25:7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Mat 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
Mat 25:9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
Mat 25:10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Mat 25:11 Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
Mat 25:12 But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Mat 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
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Truly, Islam was endowed to people living on crude oil fields. Or crude oil was endowed to them in addition to Islam, for their faith deserved it.
Indeed, it was 500 years that Islam was handed down to mankind since ancient Israelites and early followers of Jesus Christ had disappeared from Palestine and Jerusalem.
In these 500 years, people in the west of Jerusalem as far as Greece and in the east as far as Mecca must have been expected to wait for another revelation from Heaven.
But, people in the west of Jerusalem were not so well prepared. On the other hand, people in the east seem to have been well prepared.
It should be also noted that the distance from Jerusalem to Athens is about 1200 km while that from Jerusalem to Mecca is about 1200 km. (The distance from Athens to Mecca is about 2400 km or 1500 miles.) They are even in a sense like five wise girls and five foolish girls.
Maybe Justinianus I (483-565) of the Eastern Roman Empire showed arrogance the God would not overlook. Or, Papa Gregorius I (540-604) of the Vatican did not probably please God.
On the other hand, Khosrau I of Persia seems to have pleased God or Allah as the emperor was tolerant in terms of religion though he was a sincere adherent of Zoroastrian orthodoxy. The emperor also contributed to cultural development an influence of which actually reached Japan in later years.
Maybe, in order to make Persian Islamic, the God or Allah first made people in the Arabian Peninsula Islamic, for 100 years is just an hour for the God or Allah as is implied in the above proverb recorded by Matthew.
Put simply, people in the west of Jerusalem in the early seventh century must have been judged to be like foolish girls while people in the opposite direction at the same distance must have been judged to be like wise girls; thus Islam was endowed to Arabs and then Persians soon after, as the history witnessed.
In addition, people in the west of Jerusalem were forbidden to enter Jerusalem until establishment of the modern nation Israel after WWII. Indeed, Christian Crusade had been destined to fail from the beginning. Truly, Jerusalem may be still regarded as belonging to people in the east of Jerusalem by the Angels.
You had better check the situations around the emergence of Islam in the seventh century.
(other discussions will be omitted here for today...)
5. Conclusions
Put most simply, Jesus Christ made a prophecy of the emergence of, and His approval on, a new religion that would regard Him as a mere man, though, while admitting that He is a holy prophet.
The new religion happened to be Islam some Angels handed down orally to mankind in the Arabian Peninsula, in the east of Jerusalem and at a proportional distance to that from Jerusalem to Greece, around 610, namely some 500 years after the disappearance of ancient Israelites and early followers of Jesus Christ from Palestine and Jerusalem.
(other descriptions will be omitted here for today...; revised part in bold letters)
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(There is no such a super rich man in this world as owns a whole river from its river head in a mountain area to its estuary to the sea or a bay it flows into. If you join such a man, you will also dry up soon, good girls. Think it over.
By way of caution, Jesus Christ had not five wives. Think it over.)
"...As Jesus sat by the temple treasure, He watched the people as they dropped in money..."