(Mt. Fuji and Venus in the evening on January 3, 2009)In All Utterance, and In All Knowledge
Around 5 P.M. of January 3, I observed the moon and Venus in the cold winter sky being aligned on a straight line that diagonally fell onto Mt. Fuji.
The holiest three days of Japan ended, and people have started to work for the new year this Monday.
But the mood is very different from a year ago when Toyota was enjoying its maximum success of surpassing GM in terms of car sales, and Wall Street was still shining glamorously on a white hill over which Mr. Obama looked like still fighting an uphill battle.
But, I gave a warning a year ago as Benazir Bhutto was killed so ominously, which must have serious effects on the world.
Indeed, Mrs. Clinton lost a chance to become the President of the U.S. Wall Street collapsed following the fiasco in crude-oil price hikes Islamic oil-producing nations supported. Terror outraged in India. China suffered the great natural disaster and financial shock waves. And, finally, Israel launched a new large-scale military operation on Hamas in Gaza.
Truly, at the beginning of 2008, I had strong concerns about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the planned Beijing Olympic Games, the U.S. Presidential Election campaigns with Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton as major candidates, and the ever-increasing danger of the possible subprime-loan catastrophe.
However, every incident in 2008 was beyond my expectation, to be honest, including the resignation of Japan’s Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda in the last fall with the intention of securing the victory of the LDP in the expected snap election under the new leader of Mr. Taro Aso who was then more popular among voters.
Now at the beginning of 2009, I can say that it would be the start of a new sub-era, since an old one was ended with Mr. Barack Obama having been elected as U.S. President in 2008.
In this context, the current Israel’s attack on Hamas would be a significant factor of this new sub-era. It might really trigger a new and large-scale reaction from the entire Islamic world like never before. Egypt should open the border and accept Gaza people, though 1.5 million new refugees would require large-scale international aid.
Yet, the amount of money globally invested in businesses and M&As last year was $3.3 trillion, though it shows a declining trend from previous years. The huge money globally manipulated by rich and super-rich players in the financial market continues to be a factor impossible to overlook.
But, of course, the issue is a crisis on mankind of a historical scale.
For example, if we had another Hitler and Nazis today, the world would face such a crisis.
In this context, the whole sequence of the history must be reviewed, including the 9/11 Terror, which rich and super-rich people are not interested in at all, since they are still busy living with big money.
So, it is nice for you sometimes to clean out your brain and mind. If you can do that, you can even avoid life-threatening mistakes.
While being blown by a cold wind under the dark blue vault of heaven, the New Year Holiday in Japan was over with the sunset on January 3.
1Co 1:1 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1Co 1:2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their's and our's:
1Co 1:3 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
1Co 1:5 That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1Co 1:6 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1Co 1:7 So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Co 1:8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.